Couple will return property to original state once elderly relatives no longer living there

A couple have given a commitment to return their property to its former state once the woman’s elderly parents are no longer living there.

Shane Langrell, Knockadreet, Roundwood, appeared in Wicklow District Court last Tuesday, in connection with a matter which has been ongoing since 2015.

The case has been before the court on numerous occasions. ‘My clients were between a rock and a hard place,’ said the couple’s barrister.

Mrs Langville gave compelling evidence on a previous occasion about illnesses which her parents suffer.

‘She said that as soon as her parents are no longer around, she will put the building back to its former state. She has always said that,’ said the barrister.

‘We would like the matter to be adjourned with liberty to re-enter. There is no good to be served in an order being made today which will potentially impact my clients’ young family and two elderly people with nowhere else do go,’ the couple’s barrister said.

The court heard that the enforcement goes back to 2013.

A barrister for the council said that they have no interest in putting people out on the street, but they cannot countenance the ongoing situation. ‘ The reality is there is an illegality going on,’ he said.

Judge David Kennedy said that they have admitted that, and pleaded guilty.

‘But I have sympathy with their predicament,’ he said. Judge Kennedy adjourned the matter to April 16, 2019. A man who struck his partner in the head and ripped up her sofa has received a sentence of three months.

Patrick Doyle (39), of no fixed abode, carried out the attack at Glenbrook Heights, Newtownmountkennedy, on March 16, 2018.

Gardaí were called to the scene of the assault that night. The court heard Doyle had hit the woman during a row between them.

Solicitor Paddy McNeice said that Doyle had money put aside to pay for a vehicle. He thought that money was down the couch and when he went looking it wasn’t there.

The court heard that Doyle received money following an accident. He and his partner at the time began to ‘go through the money on drink and drugs’, according to Mr McNiece, who said that the relationship deteriorated.

Mr McNiece said that his client’s family are willing to allow him back to the family home on the condition there are no drink or drugs.

‘ This was a nasty incident involving his partner,’ said Judge David Kennedy, who backdated the sentence to when he entered custody on March 17.