Eviction Ireland: ‘I started taking down my children's artwork, slowly detaching my emotions from the house’

As the eviction ban ends, a Cork mother says she and her family may have to emigrate due to the shortage of accommodation

AT HOME: Rebecca and Ger O'Riordan with their children, 10-year-old Noah and three-year-old Emmy, will have to leave their home in Rochestown, Cork, by August. Picture: Dan Linehan

A Cork family may be forced to emigrate after receiving a notice to quit the rented house they have lived in for five years.

Rebecca O’Riordan, her husband, Ger, and their two children, Noah, aged 10, and Emmy, 3, were told six weeks ago that they would have to vacate their home in August.