Judge grants emergency care order after social worker finds parents passed out with children nearby

A social worker has told a court that she came across two parents passed out on the couch in the sitting room with two children aged three and six unattended nearby in the home.

At a special sitting of the Ennis Family Law court where Judge Patrick Durcan granted an emergency care order to TUSLA the Child and Family Agency (CFA) for the girl and the boy, the social worker said that the children told her that they had tried to wake the parents without success.