Robbie Henshaw in planning row with neighbour over gym in his back garden

Planning files show Robbie Henshaw sought retrospective planning permission for a garden shed and a covered side passage at his two-storey, semi-detached house after Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council issued him with enforcement proceedings last December. File photo: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Irish rugby star Robbie Henshaw is having to tackle a problem as big as this summer’s Lions tour to South Africa closer to home as the player has become embroiled in a planning row over a gym he erected in the back garden of his Dublin home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A neighbour of the Ireland and Leinster centre has lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála over what she claims are unauthorised developments at Henshaw’s home in Clonskeagh.