Politicians offer to spend night at one of country’s worst Traveller halting sites

Two politicians have agreed to spend a night at one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites to experience the appalling conditions.

Cork City councillors Ken O’Flynn of Fianna Fáil and Thomas Gould of Sinn Féin, made the conditional offer as it emerged that a retired county manager has been asked to intervene in a bid to break the stalemate affecting the overcrowded Spring Lane halting site on the northside of the city.

The site, which was developed 25 years ago for 10 families, is now home to 33 families.