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News In : Tycoon gets green light to improve his mansion
HORSE racing magnate JP McManus is celebrating another victory.
The multi-millionaire has been given the go-ahead to begin putting the
finishing touches to his €100million mansion.
Mr McManus and his wife Noreen plan to build a grand entrance to their
exclusive home at Martinstown in Co. Limerick.
The plan was last week given the green light by An Bord Pleanala following
a series of delays.
Previous decisions on the planning permission were held up following an
objection by a neighbouring landowner.
The scheme involves eye-catching entrance gates complete with a natural
stone archway, adjoining pillars with twin intricate turrets overlooking
the entry point and a specially-constructed security building.
Other work will see the construction of a sweeping access road to the
main dwelling, relocation of the entrance and access to the existing farm,
a waste water treatment system and ancillary site works.
Appeal rejected
SCISSOR Sister Charlotte Mulhall has lost an appeal against her conviction
for murdering her mother’s Kenyan boyfriend.
The 24-year-old mother-of-one had claimed that comments made by trial
judge Mr Justice Paul Carney put the jury under pressure to reach a verdict.
But leave to appeal was rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeal which
said that the jury that decided Ms Mulhall’s guilt by a 10-2 majority
were perfectly entitled to find her guilty of murder.
Mulhall from Tallaght in Dublin was given a life term for murder, in March
2005 for the killing of Farah Swaleh Noor.
During her trial, the jury was told Charlotte stabbed Mr Noor up to 20
times with a kitchen knife while her sister Linda Mulhall admitted hitting
him on the head with a claw hammer.
Traffic chaos
A BURNING tyre closed Dublin’s Port Tunnel for the third time in
a fortnight — once again plunging the Irish capital into traffic
chaos.
Four units of the fire brigade dealt with the small blaze which broke
out on the wheel of a lorry in the north tunnel.
The incident came less than two weeks after the tunnel was closed for
over eight hours because of an electrical fault and follows media reports
questioning safety procedures in the tunnel.
Fine Gael’s transport spokesman Fergus O’Dowd called for a
full safety review of the tunnel. |
