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TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION HAS been found for the Carrickmines survivors – but it won’t be at Rockville Drive.
The news came after days of talks between the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and residents of Rockville Drive.
This afternoon, the council confirmed temporary emergency accommodation for the surviving family members of the Glenamuck Road fire tragedy:
is to be provided at a council-owned car park which is adjacent to Ballyogan Works Depot with its own private access road which is also in council ownership.
Talks had been taking place over the last week with residents of Rockville Drive / Glenamuck Drive, and progress was made, but the council “was faced with an untenable and unacceptable situation where the families would have nowhere to live from this weekend”.
In a statement, the council said:
The priority is as it has always been to provide the family members with a more suitable and stable home environment within which they can begin to rebuild their lives
The new site is not ideal in that it has not got full access to all the basic services unlike the Rockville Drive site but our staff are committed to working round the clock to make it ready for the surviving family members for occupation by the weekend.
The site is currently used on a daily basis by council staff and is located adjacent to the Ballyogan Depot. It has a dedicated private entrance and access road.
The council has bought three-bedroomed mobile homes for the families. These will have water and electrical services installed and the homes will be ready for the families to move into at the weekend.
The site is located on a hard car park surface, which will be re-located to an adjacent location.
Once converted, the site will also have all appropriate safety measures included, said the council:
The site is a 15-minute walk from where the family have been living.
However, there is currently no sewerage connection on the site. The council pointed out:
The absence of a sewerage connection was one of the reasons for not recommending this site at an earlier stage but with no alternative at this point, the council will provide temporary facilities to overcome this problem.
The spokesperson said the decision to facilitate the family with emergency accommodation at the Ballyogan site was made with “great reluctance”:
The family has suffered enormous loss and our absolute priority was to ensure accommodation was provided to the surviving members of the tragedy by this weekend. We had worked hard and hoped to proceed with the more suitable, fully serviced Rockville Drive site but ultimately an agreement was not possible within the timeframe.
The council’s legal advice indicated that seeking an injunction “would almost certainly have resulted in delays which would have seen the family effectively without anywhere to live”.
Today’s decision has been made “to avoid time-consuming litigation and negotiation and to ensure the family can begin to rebuild their lives as soon as possible”.
The council is “putting our resources into ensuring the Ballyogan site is converted and available by the weekend”.
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Hopefully, some day, the remains of Ireland’s “Missing Women” might be stumbled upon too. Their poor families REALLY deserve closure also.
I think that there’s something not quite right about the investigations in to the murder of those women. Time to invite in the FBI. Too many people know each other in this country
Truthy, the FBI don’t have jurisdiction in Ireland. Your not very Truthy are you!
Thus INVITE
The FBI have actually consulted on the cases of some of the missing women.
A heart broken family will get their son back and will be able to give him a proper burial……
At the very least it might be closure for some family… Crazy that it was just down to chance!
I don’t think that it was just down to chance. A new search of Oristown bog has been under way for the last few weeks.
Some clarity here. This Garda investigation team were not looking for a stolen car. They are part of a Garda team tasked with finding the IRA disappeared. Recent intelligence information provided to them led to the bog site in Meath. The body was found close to the car. Someone owns this land or has authority over it. Quite why the shell of a burnt out car supposedly sat here for 11 years without someone reporting it, identifying the vechicle and removing it, I have no idea. Had that happened, it might have led to closure for one family a lot sooner.
Its not that unusual for people to abandon banjaxed cars in bogs. A lot of the bogs around that area are owned by the Headfort estate and so there may not be anyone monitoring it that closely.
Drive around the Dublin Mountains, plenty of burnt out cars just rotting away for years and years in fields and bogs..
The car was stolen not banjaxed
Rildo…yeah, the point is that you don’t look at a shell of a car in a bog and say to yourself “That must be a stolen car, I better call the gardai”. RIP and condolences to the family.
Well it’s that type of bumpkin “sure it’s only an oul car” shit that slows investigation s down
Mick and all your green thumbers there, ye should get out of the city and actually visit a bog, you would learn loads , including how easily a car could rest there for many decades .
Whatever you say, Officer Rildo!
Please hold the jokes, Gerry was a much loved father, son, brother, uncle and friend , his family have been through a hell that no one should ever go through. Rest in Peace Gerry
You shower of C,,,s show some respect.
Must be the first bog body to be found in a car
RIP Gerry. Glad your family have closure. Your poor mam died of a broken heart but your united with her now
It took 11 years to find a stolen car? Ffs
Cutbacks.
Lol
Yeh the cops should do a nationwide excavation of every bog in the land each time a car is reported stolen.
Their full of soil
It is quite sick that some posters regard this find as funny. Such finds will always evoke memories of other bodies scattered throughout this island, memories of fellow human beings murdered by ‘republican’ and ‘loyalist’ gangs.
Fellow human beings.. like eh Palestinians?
For what its worth you can tell if a decomposed body or skeleton is male or female by looking at the Jaw. If there’s an indent in the bit of the Jawbone that meets the skull that means it belongs to a female skeleton, if it’s not indented its a male skeleton.
Someone’s been killed what’s with the jokes FFS show some respect
Respect please people. One family has closure tonight, but there are so many more still waiting. This is not the body that they had hoped to find, but lets hope that someone will give them that one bit of information that will give the meGraw family closure. Thoughts with both families tonight.
Likely car was burnt and the car and body were buried in bog . Means the people,who did it had access to an excavator which may have been at site already legitimately. If it had been on the surface it would have been noticed a long time ago as ireland is a small place .
Sure it helped unite ireland anyway.
The car is missing since 2003. He is missing since 2011. I doubt it.
RTE news are reporting this as the remains of Gerard Daly, missing since 2011.
Gardai treating the death as suspicious.
Looking for a person wearing a black balaclava, navy track suit bottoms, black hoodie and white runners
Gardai
Was he ‘known to the Gardai’ I wonder?
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