HEADFORD ROAD TRAVELLERS LOSE HIGH COURT INJUNCTION BID

Date Published: 09-Apr-2009

The High Court has dismissed an application by members of the Travelling Community for an injunction preventing the City Council from moving them from a site on the Headford Road.Members of the Delaney, McGinley, Donavan, Stokes and Corcoran families applied for the injunction preventing the Council enforcing a Circuit Court order to have them move from a temporary halting site near Barna Waste on the Curragh Line.The families' application for an injunction was dismissed on procedural grounds by Mr. Justice John Edwards.The injunction was sought as part of judicial review proceedings against the City Council's decision to have the travellers moved.