Philanthropist ‘confident’ in UK court challenge

Irish millionaire philanthropist Sean Ambrose McCarthy is confident of success in a European Court of Justice challenge to the UK’s alleged non-compliance with EU freedom-of-movement regulations.

The 73-year-old Kerry native, who sold his multimillion-euro environmental engineering interests on retirement at the age of 50, said from his wife’s parents’ home in Colombia that he expected the court to rule in his favour this morning.

He said that in May, one of the court’s advocate generals issued a legal opinion on the evidence before the 14-judge chamber in which he had favoured all of the legal arguments put forward by the McCarthy legal team.