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NORTH Tipperary County Council have secured a number of undertak- ings from protesters who had been maintaining a blockade close to a house allocated to a ten member family from the travelling commu- nity, the High Court heard yesterday.
The High Court was told that un- dertakings had been given by a group of residents from the town of Ballina that they would not intimidate or as-
sault Council employees or the fam- ily, nor would they interfere with the access to or trespass on the house.
On Monday Mr Justice Paul Gilli- gan, after being informed of the un- dertakings, agreed to adjourn gener- ally injunction proceedings against a number of residents from Cullenagh, Ballina, County Tipperary, from con- tinuing with a blockade of the house fesse u ieee
The protest began early last month when residents discovered that a
house at Cullenagh had been ac- quired by the Council for the purpose of housing the O’Reilly family.
Last week the Council was granted permission by the High Court to no- tify those individuals involved in the blockade of their intention to seek an injunction aimed at restraining the protesters from interfering and tres- passing on the property.
Mr David Kennedy SC for the Council told the court the situation had become very inflamed. He said
glue had been placed in the house’s locks, the electricity had been cut off and the council employees attending the property were in fear of being in- timidated by those maintaining the blockade.
The O’Reilly family consists of the parents and their eight children, some of whom had special needs and were currently residing in a mobile home on the side of the road with no toilet facilities and no electricity.
The family are from the locality
and have been on the housing list since 2000.
Since the dispute began last Sep- tember a number of residents had en- tered the council’s offices in Nenagh and verbally abused people there resulting in the gardai being called. The residents had been outside the house at Cullenagh since September Rees
The council intends to have the family move into the house as soon as possible.