Wicklow County Council ordered to pay Sinn Féin TD damages

Sinn Féin TD John Brady and his wife Gayle have been awarded €6,000 over an attempt by a local authority to evict them from their rented council home.

Mr Justice Max Barrett made the award to the Bradys, of Kilbride Grove in Bray, Co Wicklow, when he handed down his judgment in their action against Wicklow County Council over the March 2014 eviction notice. The notice to quit arose out of what the council said was the failure of the Bradys to regularise an attic extension, built in 2004.

The council claimed it was a fire hazard and the fact the conversion is now substantially in compliance proved work was required, the council said in opposing the Bradys’ application.