Neighbours urged to take mediation

A judge has told warring neighbours they should engage in mediation in a bid to solve what she described as the “deeply serious and implacable problems” they face living next door to each other.

Judge Alison Lindsay threw out €38,000 damages claims brought by one next-door neighbour against the other for alleged harassment and intimidation, and refused to make any orders restraining the activities of either of them.

She said neither side, whom she described as fine people, had proven their case, and thus made no order.