Man gets injunction stopping brother from trespassing

A Lahinch man has secured a High Court injunction restraining his brother from trespassing on a tiny sliver of land measuring 0.14 of an acre.

The wider dispute between Thomas Slattery and Joseph Slattery concerns a 4.5 acre field in Lahinch which contains the sliver of land that formed part of the now disused West Clare Railway line.

Proceedings in relation to the field have been the subject of six separate court cases referred to in court prompting High Court justice, Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy to comment that the value of the legal costs over the 4.5 acre field “is extraordinary” when the value of the land is taken into account.