The building firm seeking to construct an apartment block and house plan on lands adjacent to broadcaster, Pat Kenny’s home has offered to reduce the scale of the development.

RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny and his wife Kathy claim they maintained part of disputed lands on Gorse Hill in Dalkey as a “nature reserve” for foxes and badgers and have a legal claim over it since 1991, which prevents any development of the lands, the High Court heard.

Chat show host Pat Kenny paid €5,000 for a special lease on a patch of disputed scrubland to stop his elderly neighbour building on it, the High Court heard today.

A DISPUTE over ownership of a strip of land between the home of Pat Kenny and his neighbour erupted into physical confrontation shortly after the broadcaster voiced fears that there might be attempts to develop properties in what he called “our enclave” in Dalkey, Dublin, it was claimed in the High Court yesterday.

A judge today directed that experts examining a €1m disputed patch of land beside RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny's Dalkey home should be allowed to take photographs of the land.