Guard was sleeping on the job, hearing told

A security expert who protected one of the richest men in the world found a guard asleep on the job at JP McManus’s €100m home at Martinstown Stud, Co Limerick.

Elaborate security at the 40,000sq ft McManus home was divulged at a hearing in Limerick at which a security guard is challenging his dismissal for allegedly falling asleep on duty.

The hearing heard that security at Martinstown included an electronic beam which circles the 500-acre estate and sets off an alarm if breached by an intruder.