Trump lawyers want €14,095 bill quashed

LAWYERS for US President Donald Trump appeared at a west of Ireland district court seeking to have a judgment for €14,095 against him set aside.

At Kilrush District Court, Pat Whyms BL appeared on behalf of the billionaire in the case against Cork civil engineer John V Lennon.

On June 15 last year, Mr Lennon secured a judgment of €14,095 against Mr Trump after a bill went unpaid.

Mr Lennon, of John Paul Lennon and Co Consulting Engineers, Rosehill Terrace, Cork, said that he had the court order with him in court.

He has previously stated that the €14,095 bill arises from the work he put into lodging an objection against plans for a 200,000-tonne rock barrier at the Doonbeg golf resort on the west Clare coast.

Mr Trump’s Doonbeg firm, TIGL Ireland Enterprises Ltd, subsequently withdrew that plan last December in favour of a scaled-down planning application that is currently before Clare County Council.

Mr Lennon claims that Mr Trump wasted his time in lodging the hand-written six-page objection against the plan.

Last November, Mr Lennon was pictured outside Trump Tower in New York staging a one-man protest with a sign saying ‘No wall in Doonbeg, Ireland’.

In court yesrterday, Judge Durcan said: “Obviously the order has been made by the court, but it is open to the respondent [Mr Trump] as in this case to make an application pursuant to court rules and the court has to deal with it.”

Judge Durcan said that the court did not have the time to deal with the application “as essentially this is a criminal day and it is a question of finding a day that it can be heard”.

He adjourned the matter to December 12.