Updated 11.45

The solicitor representing traveller families facing eviction from a former halting site in Co Louth says their lives are all over the place.

Residents of Woodland Park in Dundalk are meeting with Louth County Council officials today, in an effort to sort a permanent housing solution after the local authority began evicting residents from the site over health and safety concerns.

The families have until tomorrow to vacate the site.

Their solicitor Eleanor Kelly says they want to remain there until a permanent solution is found:

"Because they have been there for a year, and various Council representatives have come in and out over the months - they kind of got mixed messages and they thought they would be allowed to stay.

Obviously their lives are all over the place at the moment - they can't even think straight they are under so much pressure to sort themselves out."

Sinn Féin has criticised the eviction decision and says the council should refurbish the old site, since it has no relocation plan in place.

Travellers rights group, Pavee Point has condemned moves to evict those living at the site.