{"id":355932,"date":"2026-03-20T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:21:09","slug":"watch-drone-footage-shows-meath-home-demolition-underway-as-owner-says-send-the-bill-to-mickey-mouse-because-her-family-cant-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355932\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Drone footage shows Meath home demolition underway, as owner says \u2018send the bill to Mickey Mouse\u2019 because her family can\u2019t pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<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\">After 20-year battle, contractors begin destroying house built without planning permissionHomeowner says Meath County Council \u2018may as well send the bill to Mickey Mouse\u2019 because she and her husband can\u2019t 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 \u2018down by Saturday\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774002069_289_video.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)\">Diggers arrive to demolish Meath home at centre of planning dispute                   <\/p>\n<p>Amy Molloy, Conor Feehan and Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p>Today at 09:40<\/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 owner of a house being demolished after it was built without planning permission has said Meath County Council \u201cmay as well send the bill to Mickey Mouse\u201d because she and her husband can\u2019t afford to pay it.<\/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)\">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 \u201cwill come back on the taxpayer\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 After 20-year battle, contractors begin destroying house built without planning permissionHomeowner says Meath County Council \u2018may as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15008,13975,42,807,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-355932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-amy-molloy","tag-conor-feehan","tag-headlines","tag-housing","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355932","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=355932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}