Ex-Dublin county manager to head halting site review

A minister has intervened in a bid to break the deadlock over the Spring Lane Traveller halting site.

Junior Minister Kathleen Lynch, who has responsibility for equality, confirmed last night that the former county manager at South Dublin County Council, Joe Horan, has agreed to her request to head up an independent review of the issues linked to what’s widely regarded as Ireland’s worst Traveller halting site.

Traveller representative groups have described conditions at the site as a “humanitarian crisis”.