Developer Thomas McFeely knew he was in breach of court orders requiring him to carry out fire safety works on the Priory Hall apartments before a judge ordered his jailing for contempt, Dublin City Council has argued before the Supreme Court.
The council rejected Mr McFeely’s claim he was given no notice of a council application to the High Court last year for an order for his attachment and committal to prison.
Mr McFeely was aware that work at Priory Hall would be subject to a weekly review by the court and that effectively put him on notice he could be in breach of undertakings he had given to the court, Conleth Bradley SC, for the council, argued.
Mr Bradley was responding to questions from some of the five judges on the second day of Mr McFeely’s appeal against a High Court order in November imposing a three-month prison sentence and €1 million fine for contempt of court orders in relation to remedial works at Priory Hall, Donaghmede, Dublin.