MEMBERS OF the Traveller community are to appeal a court order compelling them to leave a site on the outskirts of Galway city.
Previously the High Court dismissed an application by the group for an injunction preventing Galway City Council from enforcing an order compelling the Travellers to leave the site at Carrowbrowne transient halting site, Headford Road, Galway.
Members of the Delaney, McGinley, Donovan, Stokes and Corcoran families, who between them have 28 dependent children, applied for an injunction preventing the city council from enforcing a Circuit Court order, made on March 25th last, directing the Delaney family to leave their current location.
A two-week stay was placed on the order, which ended on Wednesday. On Wednesday the families’ application for an injunction was dismissed on procedural grounds by Mr Justice John Edwards, who said he could not grant the order because the Circuit order had not been appealed.
The families then applied to the High Court for an order that would allow for time to bring an appeal against the Circuit Court order.
Yesterday at the High Court, the judge agreed to an application by John Gallagher SC for the council to adjourn the case for a week so that they may file a reply to the application to extend time.
The judge also refused an application from the families to put a stay on the Circuit Court order.