Woman, 90, to pay €1,500 toward legal fees after satellite dish summons

A 90-year-old woman has been hauled into court and left facing a hefty legal bill for having an “unauthorised” satellite dish on the front of her house.

Anne Rudd, of St Enda’s Rd, Terenure, Dublin 6, was compelled to come to court yesterday after she was summonsed by Dublin City Council.

She appeared before Judge John O’Neill at Dublin District Court accused of failing to comply with an enforcement notice issued on May 28 telling her she had to remove “the unauthorised satellite dish” along with all associated fixtures and fittings from the facade of her house.