Farmer wins fight to keep land

A farmer has won a Supreme Court bid to stop the IDA forcing him to sell land that has been in his family for more than a century.

Thomas Reid, whose farm adjoins the Intel site in Leixlip, Co Kildare, had sued the IDA and the State after the IDA notified him of its intention to acquire the land.

Five Supreme Court judges unanimously overturned a High Court decision and ruled the compulsory purchase could not go ahead.