{"id":271549,"date":"2026-01-30T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271549\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:42:09","slug":"firm-run-by-two-tax-offenders-used-strong-arm-tactics-to-get-paid-for-defective-repairs-to-social-housing-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271549\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm run by two tax offenders used \u2018strong-arm\u2019 tactics to get paid for defective repairs to social housing, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Bert\u2019s Properties Ltd demanded over \u20ac400,000 despite \u2018incomplete and defective upgrade works\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration: Irish Independent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cowboy renovations.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Illustration: Irish Independent<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A property services company run by two convicted tax offenders has been accused of using strong-arm tactics to get paid over \u20ac400,000 for substandard work on homes due to be used for social housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The allegation has been made in High Court proceedings against Bert\u2019s Properties Ltd, a firm run by Co Galway businessmen Alan Connolly and Conor Nolan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bert\u2019s Properties Ltd demanded over \u20ac400,000 despite \u2018incomplete and defective upgrade works\u2019 Illustration: Irish Independent A property services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,9657,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-271549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-shane-phelan","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}