Couple Ordered to Demolish House - any update?

“My son is 19 years of age and he was at home on his own when a man from the council came in (Monday) and gave him an order and told him to leave the house,” she said.

“You would think we were the Kinahans [the organised crime group] ... with the amount of the security that was at the house. There were around 30 men in balaclavas watching the place the other night. We are being treated like animals turfed out on the street with nowhere to go. I’m disgusted.

“We have applied to the European Court of Human Rights [under Rule 39 applies when a person is facing imminent harm or irreparable damage to their rights that cannot be remedied through normal judicial proceedings] to try to stop our house being demolished and are still awaiting a decision there, so how can they do this while that is ongoing?"

Firstly, the fact their son was home alone when the guards/baliffs landed is irrelevant, because they would not have known who was or wasn't in the home at the time.

And secondly, "…imminent harm or irreparable damage to their rights that cannot be remedied through normal judicial proceedings…" surely doesn't count considering their case has been remedied through normal judicial proceedings. They lost. Repeatedly. In every way, shape and form. Every level of the courts in Ireland ruled against them, repeatedly.

Goes to show a) they're still trying to drag everything out through every court imaginable to just delay what is clearly inevitable, and b) still just a pure victim mentality.

Also probably to try and turn some public opinion against Meath County Council and paint them to be the bad guys; that the Murrays were trying to donate the house to a charity, but Meath County Council want to demolish it instead.

Even though the whole crux of the issue is that nothing is permitted to be built on the land, MCC taking over (or allowing a charity org to take over) the property and keep it means MCC were then allowing the property to be retained and would give cause for the Murrays to then challenge that, and MCC refusing to allow it means they're demolishing a building which could have been used for housing (if not the Murrays, then likely people on the housing lists).

It was from the Meath Chronicle article linked in a previous post.

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2026/03/18/family-at-centre-of-bohermeen-home-slated-for-demolition-to-be-allowed-retrieve-belongings/

Yeah such pure nonsense from her.

Complaining about 20+ security & guards showing up at the house while also admitting they put a bunch of steel containers at the entrance to the site to help prevent access.

"This is a civil matter, it should have been sorted 20 years ago" even though it was and the Murrays repeatedly were the ones who dragged the arse out of it.

"We offered to reduce the size of it, even down to 1,000sq.ft, but they wouldn't even let you have a hen house on it" while also admitting what they built was about 5,600sq.ft with a carport and double garage without planning permission.

And "We offered to give it to charity, let some good come out of it, but they said no which is ridiculous with the housing crisis" even though the exact reason for refusal is nothing is permitted to be built or retained on that site.

Also acting like they're fugitives running from the law as if the arrest warrants aren't just a) a means to try and force agreement for the Murrays to comply with the legal orders to permit the house demolition, and b) enshrined in law as a punitive measure for refusal to comply with planning laws regarding unauthorised developments.

For the love of all that's good and holy, get the house demolished ASAP and be done with the whole thing.