Judge: Neighbours in row over extension ‘very foolish’

A judge who heard days of evidence about bad blood between neighbours over a house extension said the two parties were very foolish but only one was before the court.

Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin said she would strike out the charges against David Mulligan of harassment if he contributed €500 to the family refuge Cuanlee. The judge said of the harassment charges that if this was done in a fortnight “I will make it disappear”.

While the judge said the facts of the case were proved, she also remarked at Cork District Court that “this is a matter that should not really have come to this court”.