Rural people intimidated by townspeople, claims woman

Rural people were being “intimidated” by townspeople moving into the countryside, a woman claimed at the Circuit Civil Court in Tralee yesterday during a dispute over a right of way and the opening and closing of gates at the edge of the Killarney National Park.

Catherine Cremin, of Tomies Wood, at the westernmost entrance to the Killarney National Park, said she was speaking on behalf of her father, Patrick Cremin, who is in a nursing home, and her late mother Sheila, who died in the course of defending court proceedings brought against them by a Killarney town businessman.

Ms Cremin represented herself at the court yesterday in Tralee after her legal team applied to come off record.