Unpaid builder can remove goods

A builder who had left his vans as a protest on the site of luxury upmarket holiday homes near Waterville for which he had never been fully paid has secured a court order to allow him to remove US-style fridge freezers, part of a sound system, microwaves, condenser driers, kitchen islands, and other contents.

The €6m holiday home complex, The Cloisters overlooking Lough Currane in Kerry, was billed as one of the region’s most luxurious holiday home developments in 2007.

One of the houses had been on the market for over €600,000, the Circuit Civil Court in Killarney was told.