Kildare County Council accused of forcing family to sleep rough

A young mother and her toddler children face having to sleep rough because a local authority has refused to provide them with emergency accommodation.

The family went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to force Kildare County Council to provide them with accommodation.

In a sworn statement, the mother, aged in her 20s, told the High Court she feared the “detrimental effects” that being “forced to sleep rough” would have on her two children and said she was “at cracking point”.