VIDEO: Traveller family vow to stay put after standoff at city site

A Traveller family has vowed to resist any attempts to force their removal from a site in Cork City after a standoff with armed gardaí yesterday.

The Traveller Visibility Group (TVG) last night condemned attempts to tow the O’Reilly family’s caravan from the city council-owned site in Blackpool where they have been living for some nine months.

TVG spokesperson Breda O’Donoghue said they will provide the family — parents Martin and Kathleen, who are both unemployed, and their children aged three and one — with whatever support they need to ensure that they can remain on the former Hammond Lane yard until alternative accommodation is secured for them.