Hotel accommodation to cost €200k

MORE than 240 people are to be moved into emergency hotel accommodation for five weeks at a cost of about €200,000 after a High Court judge ordered the evacuation of an apartment complex last Thursday due to serious fire safety risks.

Developer Thomas McFeely, a director of Coalport, which developed the Priory Hall complex of 187 apartments at Donaghmede, north Dublin in 2006, publicly apologised to tenants and told the court he would put the resources in place for the repair works.

The president of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, said he would “police” the situation on a weekly basis and said it was a “very upsetting experience” for residents.