Mother and five children sleeping in car outside cemetery where husband is buried

A mother whose partner drowned last year is sleeping in her car with her five children because she is unable to source emergency accommodation from Cork City Council.

Jennifer O’Regan has been sleeping in her car outside Kilcully cemetery in Cork - where her partner is buried - with her children who range in age from 15 to 3 because she has hit a “brick wall” with the local authorities.

Ms O’Regan, who is originally from Farranree in Cork, says she previously lived in Britain and moved back to Ireland 15 months ago arising out of domestic violence issues.