A man has lost a High Court claim that he had established squatter’s rights over lands in Swords, Co Dublin bought by developers Tom and Michael Bailey in the 1990s.
Philip Gilligan, a former soldier, claimed that he had kept horses on the lands for years from 1988 and had built stables on the property.
In a reserved judgment yesterday, Mr Justice Roderick Murphy ruled Mr Gilligan had failed to establish “continuous user” of the lands for a 12-year period and his claim must therefore fail.