Outrage as Tipperary council moves to demolish nearly completed homes left idle since 2007

Councillors and TDs question costs, transparency and housing priorities as Tipperary council plans demolition of long-abandoned Cashel homes

Work on the homes at Ballypadeen, Cashel, stopped in 2007, but have been subject to nearly two decades of legal battling, the outcome of which the council says is confidential.

Tipperary County Council is set to demolish 52 partially completed Celtic Tiger-era homes in a move a local TD has slammed as "fundamentally flawed, lacking transparency, accountability, and basic information".

Work on the homes at Ballypadeen, Cashel, stopped in 2007, but have been subject to nearly two decades of legal battling, the outcome of which the council says is confidential. The partially completed homes had been earmarked to form part of a tourist destination on the edge of Cashel.