€10k for Dunne brother harassed over debt

A brother of bankrupt developer Seán Dunne has been awarded €10,000 by the High Court over intimidation of him and his family by the “debt collection agency” run by the criminal Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley.

Seamus Dunne, of Castlecomer Rd, Kilkenny, was entitled to the damages against a man who engaged the services of Foley in an attempt to recover a €320,000 land deal debt, Mr Justice Seamus Noonan said.

Larry McDonald, of Glenbrook, Ballyroan, Co Laois, “took the law into his own hands and employed a so-called debt collection agency operated by a notorious criminal, Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley to harass and intimidate Mr Dunne in particular into discharging the debt,” the judge said.