By Claire Corrigan
Imagine the plight of a couple and their five children – aged from 6 to 16 years of age – all forced to live in a leaky and dilapidated mobile home at the bottom of a mucky garden, with absolutely no facilities, and who’ve been left in that awful predicament for over a year – while they’ve been unable to get a house from Westmeath County Council despite constant efforts, and felt forced to turn to Topic as a last resort?