Medical certificate is queried in court

A MEDICAL certificate submitted by an absent litigant was queried by the plaintiffs at a civil sitting of the District Court in Wexford.

Judge John Cheatle was dealing with the case of Lorcan O’Donohoe, trading as Lorcan O’Donohoe Water Pumps, Courteencurragh, Gorey against Neil Reidy of Glasganny, Castlebridge. The plaintiff came to the courthouse in Ardcavan seeking payment of €15,000 claimed for work carried out drilling geo-thermal wells and a hole.

Reidy’s wife was present but her husband did not attend and she sought an adjournment of the case, stating that her husband was in Austria.

She said that he had a medical condition which dictated that he would not be able to travel until mid-June.

O’Donohoe’s solicitor Brendan Curran told the court that he had been emailed what purported to be a medical certificate.

The email contained what appeared to be an address in Germany, not Austria, and that a search on Google suggested that the place was a hotel.

The judge examined the email and concluded that it did not look like a proper doctor’s cert and it did not look authentic. He asked the respondent’s wife to pass word on to her husband that the case will go ahead on June 22, whether or not he is present. CHANGE could be on the cards at the Volvo car showrooms in Ardcavan if Wexford County Council give the green light to a planning application.

Mahon and Fox have applied for permission to demolish the existing parts department at the showrooms and build a new parts department.

They are also applying for the proposed relocation of staff toilets, changing and canteen facilities, and for the erection of new Volvo signage.

Anyone wishing to make observations and submissions on the application should do so in writing to Wexford County Council within five weeks.