It’s being claimed it will cost Meath County Council tens of thousands of euro to demolish a property in the county.
The mansion in Bohermeen was built in 2006 without planning permission – it’s reported that one of its owners is originally from Kilkenny.
Council staff, assisted by a private security firm, seized the former family home yesterday.
Demolition work is now underway, and Councillor Emer Tóibín says the money could be better spent; “Certainly there’s been much commentary about, you know, the legal fees that Meath County Council would have had to pay over the years in defending this case, but there’s a whole new set of fees, you know, the demolition fees, as we all know this is quite a large property, all that material has to be disposed of in a very environmental way and this is going to run into the tens of thousands”.
Irish Independent journalist Amy Molloy is at the scene this morning and has been describing scenes her newspaper has video footage of (see that here) on The KCLR Daily;
