Tenant: Landlord threw out my husband’s ashes

A woman told a court yesterday her landlord unlawfully entered her home and threw out personal items, including an urn containing the ashes of her late husband.

Julie Magee, who owed landlord Seamus O’Dowd more than €7,000 in rent arrears, told Judge Jacqueline Linnane in the Circuit Civil Court she could replace items of personal property but could not replace her husband’s ashes.

Una Cassidy, counsel for the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), said a Tenancy Tribunal last year awarded Ms Magee €500 for belongings she had lost when the landlord entered 11 Oak Avenue, Royal Oak, Santry, Co Dublin.