Landlord welcomes High Court quashing of ruling over students’ Covid house parties

Residents had taken legal action over noise pollution at landlord’s properties near UCC

Cork landlord Fachtna O’Reilly.  Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts

Cork landlord Fachtna O’Reilly. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts

A landlord has welcomed a High Court order quashing a ruling by a district court judge which held him responsible for noise pollution emanating from students holding lockdown parties at two of his properties near University College Cork.

Fachtna O’Reilly, of Birchley, Model Farm Road, Carrigrohane, Cork, had been told by Judge Olann Kelleher last July that he faced a €1,000 fine or 12 months in prison if there was a proven breach of a noise protection order by students holding Covid house parties at two properties owned by him.

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