TODAY’S report that a primary school firetrap was passed as fit for purpose by Department of Education officials in 2008 is shocking but unsurprising.

An internal Dublin Fire Brigade report recommended the serving of a fire notice on Longboat Quay in May of last year, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Construction industry professionals are at odds as to whether new regulations, introduced after the Longboat Quay development had been built, would prevent similar safety problems emerging.

The Longboat Quay development was found last year to have major deficiencies. We’ve

Unlike Tom McFeeley, who developed Priory Hall, Bernard McNamara was a pillar of the establishment.

Nama has secured final judgment for €8m against the wife of Priory Hall builder Thomas McFeely arising out of an unpaid loan secured on the family home in Ailesbury Rd, Dublin.

The bill to bring Priory Hall in Dublin up to standard will cost €27m, €17m more than was originally envisaged.

Priory Hall campaigner Stephanie Meehan yesterday praised the new owners of developer Tom McFeely’s Ballsbridge home after they donated their €5,000 cut of money found at the property to her and her family.

The wife of discharged bankrupt developer Larry O’Mahony is to be given €9,000-a-month for the family to live on after applying to the High Court.

Budget 2014 has come with widely welcomed measures to help the building industry and employment, benefiting homeowners, investors, vendors, and the economy.

The Government is to pump €10m into a scheme aimed at completing ghost estates in a bid to heal the scars of the economic collapse.

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It must be galling in the extreme for those deeply affected by the building standards of bankrupt developer Tom McFeely to read over the weekend that he was out and about again, this time in the UK, trying to get sufficient funds to get back into the property development business. McFeely and his business partner were the developers of the infamous Priory Hall development in Dublin.

The full weight of the State is needed to bring about a collective solution for the residents of Priory Hall, it was claimed yesterday, as the Government set up talks to sort out a deal for the householders forced to leave their homes two years ago.

Angry victims of the Priory Hall scandal have called for Taoiseach Enda Kenny put aside legal matters, by-pass Environment Minister Phil Hogan, and meet a small group of residents face to face.

A former Priory Hall resident, whose partner took his own life, will not be pursued for the outstanding debt on the property.

The country's largest mortgage lender may consider writing off the debts of mortgage customers at Priory Hall.

Tom McFeely is looking for Dublin City Council to pay his High Court legal costs after he won an appeal against an order jailing him over Priory Hall.

Dublin City Council is suing developer Tom McFeely over Priory Hall, despite the fact that he is bankrupt.

Bankrupt developer Tom McFeely breached a court order and failed to disclose assets in a case brought over his failure to pay a €24,000 debt to a recruitment firm, a judge was told today.

The bankrupt Priory Hall Developer Tom McFeely will be evicted from his mansion home on Ailesbury Road in Dublin 4 today.

Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely has been declared bankupt by the High Court.

Tom McFeely's bid to be declared bankrupt will be before the High Court later.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of developer Tom McFeely as a result of his failure to pay a debt in excess of €24,000 to a recruitment firm.

Nina McFeely, wife of bankrupt Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely, has asked a judge to allow her continue living in their €10m Dublin 4 home until one of her children completes his Leaving Cert in June next year.

AIB has denied claims it is refusing to take part in a conciliation process involving residents of the Priory Hall apartment complex in Dublin.

That the Government is to proceed with legislation to protect so-called “whistleblowers” who seek to expose wrong-doing in either the public or private sectors, is to be welcomed.

A woman bringing bankruptcy proceedings against Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely has claimed that when he was served with a court summons, he threw the papers at a car.

Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely has been jailed for three months by the High Court today.

The High Court in Dublin has today jailed Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely for three months and fined him €1m.

Dublin City Council is expected to propose a solution to the High Court later today to address fire safety issues at the Priory Hall apartment complex.

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The High Court has ruled Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely has breached an order directing him to fireproof the complex.

PROPERTY developer Larry O’Mahony, who was adjudicated bankrupt in Britain earlier this year with debts of £197 million (€226m) mostly owed to Irish Nationwide Building Society, has lost a bid to be taken out of court proceedings concerning the Priory Hall apartment complex.

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

The Irish Home Builders Association has said the situation in Priory Hall could have been prevented if a national builders' register existed.

CONCERNS have been raised that other apartment blocks built during the boom may not meet the required building and fire safety regulations.