'Extraordinary delays' in restoring building demolished without permission

A digger and workmen at the scene of a house in Co Meath which is at the centre of a 20-year-long legal battle. File picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

There have been “extraordinary delays” in restoring a Carlow town site on which a building was demolished without permission, a High Court judge has said.

Judge Mary Rose Gearty said it has been “painful” to observe a case in which orders for the property’s reinstatement were made in 2017 by a now-retired judge.