Council was 'bewilderingly incompetent' in trespass case , judge says

A local authority was "bewilderingly incompetent" in its conduct when it directed a construction firm to trespass on private land to carry out road and drainage works, a High Court judge said.

Council was 'bewilderingly incompetent' in trespass case , judge says

A local authority was "bewilderingly incompetent" in its conduct when it directed a construction firm to trespass on private land to carry out road and drainage works, a High Court judge said.

Ms Justice Una Ní Raifeartaigh made the comment when she awarded €77,000 to members of the Eustace family from Drogheda, Co Louth, for "gross negligence" in the trespass over a nine-year period on family land at the intersection of Donore Road and St John's Road, opposite the Haymarket development in the centre of Drogheda.

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