'We’ll probably freeze to death if we’re here this winter': Father and son live on abandoned bus in Cork

'We’ll probably freeze to death if we’re here this winter': Father and son live on abandoned bus in Cork

The yard where Patrick and Adrian Walsh are living in an old, yellow minibus, with no running water or mains electricity. Pictures: Larry Cummins

Sleeping toe to toe as rats scurry below their ‘bed’ at night, Patrick Walsh and his disabled son Adrian are in mortal fear of winter.

Patrick has lived in an abandoned bus on a site outside Blarney in Cork for about four years and he became Adrian's sole carer since his son joined him there more than one year ago.

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