Owners of Dunne home ‘entitled to apply for planning’

The company that acquired Ireland’s most expensive house was entitled to apply to develop the site, a Bord Pleanála hearing has been told.

The claim was made by planning consultant Ray Ryan, for Yesreb Holding Ltd, that wants to renovate and extend the Edwardian house on Dublin’s Shrewsbury Road and build four houses on the site.

Gayle Killilea, wife of developer Sean Dunne, bought the house on an almost two-acre site in 2005 for €58m. It remains the highest price paid for a house in Ireland.