Storm damage sees Traveller families housed in top 4 star hotel

Eleven Traveller families are being accommodated in one of Cork’s top hotels following claims their caravans sustained storm damage earlier this month.

And City Hall has confirmed that it has spent €253,000 replacing 19 caravans or mobile homes which sustained damage at city-managed halting sites in the three winter storms since October.

Eleven families from the Carrigrohane Road halting site secured the emergency accommodation in the four-star Kingsley Hotel in the wake of Storm Eleanor in early January.