A number of people living in Carrickmines are refusing to allow a family that survived last weekend's fatal fire to move into temporary accommodation near their homes.
Ten people, five adults and five children, were killed when a fire tore through a halting site on Glenamuck Road on Saturday morning.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has chosen a piece of land in nearby Rockfield Drive, where it wants to place mobile homes for the survivors of the fire.
The council says the family would stay there for six months, until a permanent halting site is ready to move into.
However, settled residents around Rockfield Drive have been blocking access to the site, which the council says has been deemed emergency land as a direct result of Saturday's fire.
A meeting was held earlier to try and address concerns, but protesting residents from Rockville Drive avoided the media on their way in and out of talks.
Protesters have parked cars along both sides of the access road, making it too narrow for mobile homes to be transported to the site.
These signs have since been places close to the entrance of the temporary site by people who disagree with the protester's actions, which on Councillor has called 'outrageous'.
Geraldine Dunne from the Southside Travellers Action Group says the families want to move in:
Meanwhile a candle light vigil will be held at the scene of the fatal fire in Carrickmines tonight.
Read the full statement from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co. Council following today's meeting:
