Former Bord Pleanála deputy chair Paul Hyde's  sentence appeal to be heard next month

Case was one of a number impacted by the withdrawal of services by criminal barristers over the issue of fees

Former deputy chairman of An Bord Pleanála Paul Hyde was given a two-month jail sentence in June over breaches of planning laws. File picture: Dan Linehan

The appeal by Paul Hyde, the former deputy chairman of An Bord Pleanála, against the jail sentence he received in June over breaches of planning laws will be heard next month.

Mr Hyde, 50, had pleaded guilty in June to two offences contrary to Section 147 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, with District Court Judge James McNulty hearing one small parcel of land in Cork City — known as a "ransom strip" — had not been declared by Mr Hyde in 2015, and that in 2018 he had then failed to declare properties which he still owned but to which receivers had been appointed.