Traveller couple with one-year-old baby sleeping in van after losing caravan roof in Storm Ophelia

"We are sleeping with our clothes on in the van at night and our daughter is frightened and very afraid and scared."

Traveller couple with one-year-old baby sleeping in van after losing caravan roof in Storm Ophelia
Sun, 22 Oct, 2017 - 17:14

Olivia Kelleher

A young traveller couple in their 20s with a one-year-old baby have been sleeping in a van since Storm Ophelia blew the roof over their mobile home at a halting site in Cork.

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CourtsHeathrowPlace: Storm OpheliaPlace: CorkPlace: Spring Lane HaltingPlace: BallyvolanePlace: Spring LanePlace: IrelandPlace: Carrigrohane RoadPlace: Cork North CentralPerson: Olivia KelleherPerson: Minister for Housing,Person: Eoghan MurphyPerson: Eithne LynchPerson: Lorna BoguePerson: Oliver MoranPerson: MoranPerson: OpheliaOrganisation: Storm OpeliaOrganisation: Edel HouseOrganisation: City CouncilOrganisation: Cork Traveller Women’s NetworkOrganisation: CTWNOrganisation: Traveller Visibility GroupOrganisation: TVGOrganisation: Cork City CouncilOrganisation: Housing DirectorateOrganisation: Green PartyOrganisation: Cork Greens
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