The Supreme Court has refused to hear a further appeal by Priory Hall developer Thomas McFeely over the near five-year extension of his bankruptcy.

Residents at the Priory Hall apartment complex are to consider a proposal by Dublin City Council to enter a resolution process chaired by a retired judge, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

THE Priory Hall scandal is not the first time property developer Thomas McFeely has been before the courts in recent years.

RESIDENTS of an apartment complex have been warned by Dublin City Council that they will have to vacate their homes because of major fire safety defects in the buildings.

A building company has been fined €50,000 after a woman’s car was crushed by a load of steel mesh grids at a construction site just minutes after she had dropped a number of children at a nearby school.