A man living on a one hundred tonne former minesweeper vessel in a Dublin harbour has won his Supreme Court appeal aimed at preventing it being removed and scrapped.

Last month, water again surfaced on the Irish political landscape. At a time when Brexit should be occupying the national agenda, it was water that hijacked the airwaves.

The residents of Skerries in Dublin are calling on the Government not to sell the town’s harbour to a private investor.