The group supporting victims of the Carrickmines fire tragedy says the families are becoming "desperate" due to the ongoing uncertainty over where they'll be accommodated.
Southside Travellers Action Group met with Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council officials this afternoon to press for emergency accommodation for the 15 people left homeless by the fire.
Currently, the families are being accommodated on a night-to-night basis in temporary accommodation that will no longer be available after Wednesday.
The group says a decision is necessary immediately to provide these families with a safe place to live.
The first of the funerals will be held tomorrow.
Director of the Southside Travellers Action Group Geraldine Dunne said “The families are getting desperate to know what will happen to them when the funerals are over on Friday. This situation has gone on for 10 days and a decision is necessary immediately to provide these families with a safe place to live.”
Funeral Mass for Willie Lynch and his partner Tara Gilbert and their children, Jody and Kelsey, and Willie’s brother Jimmy Lynch, will be held in Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Main Street, Bray at noon tomorrow.
The remains of Thomas Connors, his wife Sylvia, and their three children, Christopher, Jim and baby Mary, will be brought to the Church of the Ascension of the Lord in Balally, Sandyford, on Wednesday at 5pm.
A funeral Mass will be held there on Thursday, Oct 22nd, at 11.30am, after which their remains will be brought to the Church of the Assumption, Bride Street, Wexford town, arriving at 5pm.
The family will be buried in Crosstown cemetery, Wexford, following a prayer service in the church at 12 noon on Friday.
