The European Court of Human Rights said it was convinced that the authorities’ objectives for the road network with significant benefits for the economy and public protection were legitimate.
The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible a complaint filed against the state through two women whose families had been taken from their lives at a roadside structure site to facilitate the structure of a new road in Limerick, as it was “manifestly ill-founded”.
Sisters Christina Faulkner and Bridget McDonagh claimed their human rights were violated when lawsuits in the city and Limerick County Council forced their families to leave a roadside location in the Limerick suburb of Coonagh in 2017, where they had lived for 4 years.
The two women’s lawyers alleged that the respect for housing guaranteed by article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated.
They also alleged that their rights had been violated through the court proceedings because they had been carried out too hastily and were not represented by a lawyer.
Faulkner said he did not present good enough housing on the domain, an allegation disputed by the state, which said it rejected housing proposed by the local council.
Ms McDonagh’s circle of relatives had been accommodated in an emergency hotel, but continued to live at the roadside site that day and returned permanently in 2017.
Occupation delaying work
The City of Limerick and county council took legal action to get the two families to divest themselves of the site in 2017, as their illegal profession of the site delayed the structure of a new ring road designed to deal with traffic disorders in the city.
The City Council has indicated that the contractors of structures claimed more than € 531,000 for delays in the award and € 10,000 for additional working day.
The ECtHR learned that the two families were not represented by a lawyer when the case was first brought before the Circuit Court, which issued orders requiring them to leave the Coonagh site.
Although they later received representation, they unsuccessfully challenged the decision to leave the site of the road.
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