Travellers seek court order to prevent eviction from halting site

A group of up to 100 members of the Irish Traveller's community are seeking High Court orders restraining Offaly Co Council from moving them from an unofficial halting site.

The action is brought on behalf of the group by Patrick McInerney his wife Bridget McInerney whom the court heard have been living at the halting site at Kilmucklin, Ashfield, Clara in Co Offaly since 2003 and Mary McInerney who is a primary healthcare worker with the Tullamore Travellers Movement, who also resides at the site with her family.