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Sat 07 Jul 2009Court backs owner of home that 'disappeared'
A MAN whose Tory Island holiday home “disappeared” while he was abroad is entitled to a new house or the equivalent market value of one, a High Court judge has ruled.
Filmmaker Neville Presho (61), from Hollywood, Co Down, had claimed his house on Tory Island, off the Donegal coast, was demolished and used as a car park by an adjoining hotel. He sued the hotel, Ostán Thoraigh Comhlacht Teoranta, and its owner Patrick Doohan, for trespass and physical damage to the 19th-century stone house.
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