Famous confectioner loses appeal over rights of way

A family of confectioners who were the creators of ‘emeralds’ sweets has lost an appeal over whether there were rights-of-way over their former factory lands in Co Donegal.

In 2015, the High Court ruled the estate of a member of the McKinney family, who set up Oatfield Sweets in 1930, had no entitlement to the rights- of-way across the former sweet factory premises in Letterkenny.

That decision was appealed and Mr Justice Gerard Hogan, on behalf of a three-judge Court of Appeal, dismissed the case.