Employee homes for Kerry business in jeopardy over dispute with council 

The authority is refusing to release a bond of €108,000 which is being held in connection to an adjoining development for employees by Walsh Colour Print that was completed in 2008

The Wojs family were the first new owners to move into the Walsh Colour Print employee housing scheme in Castleisland, Co Kerry. Pictured are Marcin, who works as a forklift driver with the firm, his wife Anna, and daughter Ameua. Picture:: Domnick Walsh

An innovative scheme set up by a Co Kerry couple to provide affordable housing for their employees is in jeopardy over a dispute with the local authority. Three homes built by Castleisland-based Tony and Patricia Walsh, of Walsh Colour Print, for their employees, were occupied last year and another 10 are due to be available by next February, but a dispute over a bond for a connected development is now casting doubt on the scheme.

The first three houses in the Clonough development at Bawnluskaha on the Limerick road in Castleisland.