A Clare man who was taken to University Hospital Limerick after a fall would not have died had he been properly treated and kept in, a court heard.

A builder who had left his vans as a protest on the site of luxury upmarket holiday homes near Waterville for which he had never been fully paid has secured a court order to allow him to remove US-style fridge freezers, part of a sound system, microwaves, condenser driers, kitchen islands, and other contents.

County Council officials stood on platforms so they could peer over a high metal fence to see if a small-time businessman they were pursuing through the courts was complying with planning on a remote section of the Ring of Kerry, a court in Killarney was told yesterday.