Kerry builder’s action against county council fails

A Co Kerry builder and two of his companies have failed to obtain leave for a High Court inquiry into Kerry County Council’s demands that they cease using a residential site for commercial purposes.

Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said in a reserved judgment that Barth O’Neill, Dunboy Greener Homes Limited, and Dunboy Construction and Property Developers Limited, had in 2004 commenced construction of a large housing estate at Pairc Chumin, Clashnagrance, Kilcummin, Killarney, which remained unfinished.

He said barrister John J Morrissey had told the court that the developers had in 2005 started storing “things related to building” on the undeveloped part of the site.