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A JUDGE yesterday refused to con- firm the licence for a pub in Kilkishen after an elderly neighbour expressed concern about the noise emanating from it.
83-year-old Theresa Holahan, of Main Street, Kilkishen, objected to the confirmation of the licence to Brendan Hannon, who leases Glee- son’s public house, next door to where she lives. After she told the court that loud noise could be heard from the premises in the early hours of one morning, Judge Joseph Man- gan upheld the objection and did not confirm the licence to Mr Hannon.
Mrs Holahan told Ennis District Court that she has lived close to the pub for many decades. She first encountered problems in 2004 and 2005 and conditions were imposed, in court in 2005.
She said that those conditions were abided by initially, but the situation has changed in recent times.
“There is a lot of noise out the back and a lot of music,’ she told the court yesterday. Her solicitor Siobhan Mc- Mahon put it to her that one of the conditions imposed in 2005 was that a device to limit the noise would be put in place. Mrs Holahan said she was not aware whether this was used or not as it has been “quite noisy”.
Mrs Holahan said that she had to ring Mr Hannon at 2am a number of weeks ago as the noise was loud. This was due to a camogie team en- gaging in a sing-song, after they had won a county final.
“This is annoying me,” she told the court.
Ms McMahon said that her client “cannot be expected to make phone calls at 2 o’clock in the morning in relation to noise emanating from the premises.”
Solicitor for Mr Hannon, Stiofan Fitzpatrick said that his client has at all times acceded to all the requests made by Mrs Holahan. However Mrs Holahan said this was not the case.
Mr Fitzpatrick said that the noise limiting device has been in full working order. He said that the noise at the back of the premises was due to people smoking, but that people had to smoke somewhere. Mrs Hola- han replied, “I don’t care where they smoke as long as they don’t make LO) onl
Mr Hannon told the court that any time Mrs Holahan has contacted him about music, the issue has been rec- tified immediately. He said he took over the lease of the premises more than a year ago.
He said the noise limiter has been tested and is in full working order. However, while this works for bands
and music, it does not apply to sing- songs.
He told the court he accepted he was “100 per cent wrong” on the night of the camogie sing-song as things got on top of him and was under pressure at the time.
Mr Fitzpatrick said that Mr Hannon would give an undertaking to abide by the conditions.
The owner of the pub Noel Gleeson said that he was aware of the condi- tions, imposed in 2005, but he hadn’t received them in writing. The pub had been leased by two other indi- viduals at that time.
Asked did he tell Mr Hannon about the conditions, he replied, “No.”