{"id":411173,"date":"2026-04-22T04:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411173\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:37:15","slug":"cork-tenant-who-allegedly-assaulted-neighbour-through-window-ordered-to-vacate-property-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411173\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork tenant who allegedly assaulted neighbour through window ordered to vacate property \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

An overholding tenant who allegedly assaulted a neighbour in Co Cork<\/a> and kicked down their fence over a belief they had reported her to social services has been ordered to vacate the property.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed<\/a> responded to \u201cat least\u201d 22 incidents at the property in Brookhill, Carrigaline, during the course of Donna Lonergan\u2019s tenancy, a Residential Tenancies Board<\/a> (RTB) tribunal heard.<\/p>\n

Lonergan received a notice of termination over alleged antisocial behaviour in October 2024, giving her a month to vacate. However, she remained in the property by the time of the RTB hearing last January.<\/p>\n

Eimear Kiernan, a representative of approved housing body Co-operative Housing Ireland, told the tribunal a warning letter was issued to Lonergan in September 2023 following an incident involving a neighbour.<\/p>\n

Kiernan claimed Lonergan and her partner trespassed in the neighbour\u2019s garden, \u201cassaulted\u201d them through a window and \u201csmashed a vase\u201d.<\/p>\n

Detailing further incidents attended by garda\u00ed, Kiernan claimed Lonergan used a hammer to break her own window after returning from a holiday as she could not find her keys, a tribunal report published on Friday notes.<\/p>\n

Neighbours called garda\u00ed at the time, she said, though Lonergan disputed this, saying she called them herself. She told the tribunal that 15 of the 22 calls were made by her due to incidents within her own home involving her former partner.<\/p>\n

Kiernan told the tribunal Lonergan received a verbal warning in June 2024 after she allegedly \u201ckicked\u201d down the fence between her home and that of a neighbour, who she suspected had reported her to social services.<\/p>\n

Issues began to escalate the following month, Kiernan said, claiming there was another assault of a neighbour, as well as allegations of \u201cparties\u201d, \u201cscreaming\u201d and \u201cdrunken visitors\u201d to the property and street.<\/p>\n

Sinead Chambers, representing Lonergan, argued the notice of termination she received was invalid as it did not state the reason or details of the alleged antisocial behaviour. She told the tribunal Lonergan \u201creacted badly\u201d when she confronted the neighbour over a \u201csuspicion she held\u201d.<\/p>\n

Chambers said her client had made \u201chuge efforts\u201d and there have been no incidents since, saying Lonergan was \u201cmanaging the stress\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lonergan told the tribunal she had not engaged with her neighbours for 18 months, adding that the alleged trespassing incident came before the courts and was dismissed.<\/p>\n

She said she had no convictions for assault, though this was disputed by the landlord\u2019s representative, who said a second case was before the courts.<\/p>\n

The tribunal said it was satisfied Lonergan engaged in antisocial behaviour during her tenancy and found her to be in breach of her obligations.<\/p>\n

Noting that the landlord submitted \u201cextensive complaints\u201d received about Lonergan\u2019s behaviour, the tribunal accepted the landlord owed a \u201cduty of care\u201d to its other tenants and staff.<\/p>\n

Deeming the notice of termination valid, it ordered Lonergan to vacate the property within 56 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overholding tenant who allegedly assaulted a neighbour in Co Cork and kicked down their fence over a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45,46,61,60,13696,112],"class_list":["post-411173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-residential-tenancies-board-prtb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411173","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=411173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}