Residents hit out at IRFU attitude to buying homes

RESIDENTS living alongside Limerick’s Thomond Park said yesterday they will consider any reasonable offer from the IRFU to buy them out in order to expand the stadium.

Residents hit out at IRFU attitude to buying homes

But they hit out at what they claim is the high-handed manner in which the IRFU has approached a proposed deal. Residents say there will be no sell out unless the union changes its tune and ups the €200,000 on offer for each of the 16 terraced houses in Knockalisheen Road, Ballynanty.

Mike Tobin, a resident of six years, said: “When they are doing the big job on Lansdowne Road I doubt if they will treat their Dublin 4 neighbours like they have treated us.”

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