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Landlord ordered to control noise of tenants

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  • 22-05-2004 7:29am
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    Victor
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    http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/3238483?view=Eircomnet
    Landlord ordered to control noise of Latvian tenants
    From:The Irish Independent
    Friday, 21st May, 2004

    RESIDENTS who complained of neighbours having a constant party, urinating on cars and crawling drunkenly in and out of vans, brought a successful court action yesterday to have the volume turned down.

    Paul Hogan and Roy Fitzsimons, both of Lambay View, Skerries Road, Rush, brought the action under environmental legislation against Brian Egan, landlord of a house also in Lambay View.

    "It's like living with Temple Bar next door," said Mr Fitzsimons at yesterday's civil sitting of Balbriggan District Court.

    Mr Egan was present to defend the action - taken directly against him but in relation to six Latvian workers residing in his property, accused of causing the constant disturbance.

    He told Judge Bryan Smyth he had referred the concerns to the Garda as he had received "abusive and threatening" phone calls.

    Mr Fitzsimons told the court he had a young child and the noise levels were constant and unacceptable. Trouble reached a peak at a party last August in which 30 people gathered in the neighbouring driveway.

    "These tenants are just completely uncontrollable. There is stuff I have seen that you would not believe," he said.

    Co-plaintiff Paul Hogan said a street party saw "people crawling in and out of vans, drunk and disorderly."

    One man had urinated on his car. "There are always hundreds of cars outside, it's like a drop-in centre."

    Mr Egan said he had always sought to comply with reasonable requests from neighbours.

    "There does seem to be, as in every story, two sides to it," he said.

    "We would all love to live beside Mr and Mrs 2.4 children but clearly that is not the reality."

    Judge Smyth said he was satisfied at the evidence of the plaintiffs.

    "I don't believe Mr Egan has treated the matter as seriously as he should have done," he said, imposing an order on the defendant to ensure the noise levels were reduced.

    Mark Hilliard


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