Squatter rents out house and leaves

Forget squatter’s rights — it was squatter’s flight yesterday after it emerged that a man who won his claim to a property he had broken into 30 years ago had left the country.

Desmond Grogan secured a Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that the state could not remove him from No 6 Enniskerry Rd in Phibsborough, Dublin.

Mr Grogan had broken into the red-brick house in Feb 1982, months after the death of the owner, barrister Alice Dolan, in Oct 1981.