The wife of convicted drug dealer John Gilligan has sacked the legal team which had been representing her in the action by CAB relating to the receivership of the Jessbrook equestrian centre in Meath.

THE Supreme Court will hear later this year an appeal by convicted drug dealer John Gilligan and other members of his family aimed at preventing several properties owned by them, including the Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in Co Meath, being handed over to the state after a High Court finding that they are the proceeds of crime.

GERALDINE Gilligan, the ex-wife of convicted drug dealer John Gilligan, told the High Court yesterday she lives on €80 per week from renting grazing rights at Jessbrook Equestrian Centre lands, which she owns.

A JUDGE yesterday ordered that photographs of the former equestrian centre owned by the wife of convicted drug dealer, John Gilligan, should be taken today or on Monday to ascertain its condition in advance of a High Court hearing next week into whether a receiver should be appointed to take the property over.

FOREIGN assets of crime bosses will no longer be out of the reach of Irish authorities under legislation to be enacted this week.