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User:rorynoonanDate:18/01/2013Time:12:26:19Edition:18/01/2013Frifriecho180113Page:1Color:
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By DEIRDRE O’REILLYA CORK family say they will not moveout of their home while demolitionworks are going on around them aspart of a city regeneration project.
Imelda and Frank Carey from ArdmoreAvenue, Knocknaheeny, say they are not goingto move from their home unless, and until,Cork City Council offers them a place to livethey feel is suitable for them.
Contractors are currently on site carryingout preparation works ahead of demolitionwhich is due get under way next week.
A total of 70 houses are being razed to theground as part of phase one of the €75 millionplan.
While other families in the area have beenre-housed in locations around the city, Imeldaand Frank, who own their house, say the al-ternative houses they have been offered aren’tsuitable.
“We have been offered Shanakiel and TheMeadows up by St Vincent’s, but they’re too faraway,” said Imelda.
“I suffer from arthritis in both knees and amnot able to walk long distances and I don’tdrive. I want to stay close to the doctor, thecredit union, the church and the supermarketI’ve used for the past 40 years,” she added.
Imelda, aged 67, and Frank, 71, raised their
eight children in the house. One of their sonslives with them, their daughter, who is study-ing medicine in Trinity College, returns homeat weekends, and their other six children livenearby.
“We don’t want to leave our home, andwherever we go it will just be a house. I’ve toldthe council that I’d move to lower Shanakiel,Monastery Avenue or Monastery Hill, but theyhaven’t offered us anything in those places.
“All we want is a nice house, like I have at themoment, in the right location,” said Imelda.
A spokesman for Cork City Council said theycouldn’t speak about individual cases, but con-firmed that a full consultation process beganwith local residents over a year ago.
“Every resident was informed and wouldhave been offered alternative, top class, turnkey accommodation,” said the spokesman.
He also confirmed that while demolition willget under way next week, any home whereagreement has not been reached will not be de-molished.
It’s also expected that the row of houses thatthe Carey’s live on won’t be part of the initialdemolition process.
Bulldozerswon’t getus to move
Frank and Imelda Carey outside their familyhome in Knocknaheeny which they are refusingto leave until they get ‘suitable’ accommodation.“It is where we brought up our eight children.”
Picture: Larry Cummins and Denis Minihane
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