and her parents say, however, she can no longer stay at the three-bedroom house, where she has been since February, due to overcrowding.
“My mother and father, they minded us for five months but they are not young. It caused a lot of problems to be honest, especially with the kids, so many of them. The queue for the bathroom alone. There was a massive row and I left on July 1st. They slept in the car, she says, last Wednesday and Thursday, pulling in to different locations each night.“I sleep in the driver seat. My oldest daughter sleeps in the passenger seat. David and Danny sit in the back seat with in her seat.” Thomas sleeps in a third seat at the back. She has been washing in garage and council bathrooms, she adds.
She added: “I hope she gets some help from the council because she can’t come back here and there’s no one else to help her.” A spokesman for the council said there was a “dearth” of emergency accommodation across Tipperary. He did not accept the family had no option but to sleep in the car, however, and described spending her days with the children in the council car park as a “protest”.
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