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After 20-year battle, contractors begin destroying house built without planning permissionHomeowner says Meath County Council ‘may as well send the bill to Mickey Mouse’ because she and her husband can’t afford to pay itDigger arrives at property shortly before 6am, Irish Independent video footage shows demolition underwaySources with knowledge of the demolition plans have said they expect the house to be ‘down by Saturday’
Diggers arrive to demolish Meath home at centre of planning dispute
Amy Molloy, Conor Feehan and Mark Condren
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The owner of a house being demolished after it was built without planning permission has said Meath County Council “may as well send the bill to Mickey Mouse” because she and her husband can’t afford to pay it.
Rose and Chris Murray, whose home in Faughan Hill, Bohermeen, is set to be turned to rubble following a 20-year dispute, have claimed that the cost of knocking the 526 sq m house “will come back on the taxpayer”.