Baby twins sleeping in ‘deplorable’ rat-infested conditions, High Court told

Eight-month-old twins have to sleep in Moses baskets in a rat-infested home shared with their Traveller parents and seven young siblings, the High Court was told yesterday, writes Ray Managh.

James O’Reilly SC, counsel for the family, told the court that John and Caroline Sherlock and their nine children had been living in unhealthy, deplorable, and dangerous temporary accommodation at Carrowgar, Lahinch, Co Clare, for the past three years.