‘Acquaintance’ of Adams built a firetrap: Taoiseach

THE builder behind Priory Hall was an “acquaintance” of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and had built a “firetrap”, the Taoiseach yesterday told the Dáil.

Sinn Féin TDs demanded an apology when Enda Kenny took a swipe at the party’s connections with Thomas McFeely — the former IRA hunger striker, turned property developer behind the unsafe apartments. After residents had to spend another night in a hotel, the Taoiseach said Mr McFeely had “blatantly flouted the planning regulations to build a firetrap”.

He said: “Three hundred people are staying in a hotel tonight because they were moved out of a firetrap by court order.”