Family told mobile home had to go

A family who had been living in a mobile home at the centre of a “tense” stand-off with residents of a housing estate were ordered by a judge to remove it by midnight yesterday or face it being taken away by Cork County Council — and yesterday the family had it moved.

Emma O’Driscoll and Jason O’Donoghue, who have three young children, have been living in the mobile home on a green area of the Beechfield estate in Fermoy in North Cork and had been asked to court in Cork City to respond to efforts by Cork County Council to have the dwelling removed.

Previous to the mobile home being parked there, the couple had been staying in a caravan on the green at the rear of Mr O’Donoghue’s father’s house for two years, and which itself is the subject of a separate action by the local authority.