Developer fined

An unnamed developer has been fined a staggering 1,000 for illegally demolishing a nineteenth century convent in Terenure.

Eoin Higgins, a planning enforcement officer with the council, told the court he had twice served notice on the company to reinstate the building, something that proved impossible after its demolition.

The Presentation Convent was described by Judge David McHugh as ‘a very fine building.’

The developer, trading under the name Kimpton Vale Ltd, hopes to secure planning permission for an office block ‘so that the convent will not have died in vain.’

Meanwhile, another developer has denied before the Mahon Tribunal that a deleted diary entry was about an illicit payment. Counsel for Mr Owen O Callaghan explained that the entry, far from concerning his Quarryvale project, was most likely an idea for a three act drama which the developer had later decided wasn’t up to scratch.