NYC cop’s legal battle to ‘reclaim’ Irish estates

A FORMER New York policeman is set to launch a legal battle to reclaim some of Ireland’s greatest estates from their owners.

John Sweeney staged a symbolic protest in the grounds of Blarney Castle to highlight the start of a case he’s bringing against 10 landlords.

Sweeney, who was born in Cullen, Co Cork, claims the estates were granted to “settlers” and taken from Irish people illegally hundreds of years ago.