Sinn Féin has slammed Louth County Council over its decision to evict 15 Traveller families from a second site in Dundalk.

Leader Gerry Adams said it is outrageous that families who are already traumatised by being evicted last week, are being evicted again as a consequence of a bad decision by the council.

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Mr Adams said: "Louth County Council has a legal obligation as a designated housing authority to accommodate homeless families. It is bizarre at a time of an unprecedented housing crisis in County Louth, where there are 5,000 people on the Council's housing waiting list, that the Council has taken a course of action that has only made more citizens homeless. This is entirely inappropriate.

"There should be no more evictions. The families do not want conventional housing so the Council's refusal to refurbish the Woodland Park site using money allocated by the government is incomprehensible."

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