John Gilligan's Jessbrook now used as care centre for teens

Auctioneers and members of CAB in the main arena in the Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in  Kildare in 2013. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin.

A Co Kildare home seized from convicted drug trafficker John Gilligan by the Criminal Assets Bureau has been turned into a residential unit for teenagers in care.

Jessbrook Equestrian Centre was the subject of a lengthy legal battle between Gilligan and CAB, which lasted almost two decades before it was finally seized by the State and put on the market in 2013.