Woman, 72, loses action in land row with Government minister

A 72-year-old woman has lost her civil action in a land dispute involving a Government minister and his father.

Diane Whitehead initiated civil proceedings against junior transport minister Alan Kelly and his father, Thomas Kelly, aged 74, after a laneway she used to access her field was blocked.

The 72-year-old, who is originally from London moved to North Tipperary in the late 1980s, after buying a four-bedroomed modern bungalow that overlooks Lough Derg outside the village of Portroe.