{"id":367285,"date":"2026-03-27T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:53:08","slug":"tesco-secures-permanent-order-preventing-couple-from-trespassing-on-development-site-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367285\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco secures permanent order preventing couple from trespassing on development site \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tesco\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tesco\/\">Tesco<\/a> has secured a permanent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/high-court\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/high-court\/\">High Court<\/a> order preventing a couple from trespassing on an eight-acre development site in Galway city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last July, the supermarket operator obtained a temporary injunction preventing Martin and Kathleen Donovan, who live in a caravan on a halting site at T\u00far Uisce, Doughiska, Galway, from trespassing on the land. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The court heard they had been keeping horses on the land at Briarhill Junction and using buildings on it as makeshift stables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Following the granting of the injunction, the horses were removed and the site was secured, David Dodd, barrister for Tesco Ireland Ltd, told the court on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dodd said that, while the court could take comfort from the fact that its order has been complied with, he wanted it to be made permanent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Donovans did not appear in court, counsel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Brian Cregan was satisfied the papers had been served on them and he granted the injunction sought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Previously, the court heard the Donovans claimed they have been on the site for 15 years and could claim some adverse possession (squatters rights). Tesco disputed this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The court heard Tesco was told at a meeting with the Donovans before the case was brought that they would get the horses off if they were \u201cfinancially compensated\u201d. Tesco refused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Galway City Council notified Tesco it had to render part of the land \u201cother than derelict\u201d and the site had been placed on the derelict sites register.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dodd said the derelict sites issue has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tesco wants to develop the site. Part of it has been compulsorily purchased for part of the N6 Galway City Ring Road project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesco has secured a permanent High Court order preventing a couple from trespassing on an eight-acre development site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4500,73,61,60,43,4013],"class_list":["post-367285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-galway","tag-high-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367285","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=367285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}