A court has heard a man stuck an animal skull on a neighbours wall over a boundary dispute.
Paul Tully is involved in a long-running dispute with Gary Delaney and Denise Doorley over a boundary between their home and a house Tully owns.
Tully, of Dublin, was ordered to pay €20,000 towards rebuilding a boundary wall between the two properties from a Dublin Circuit Court decision from February.
It was ordered that he should give them an additional €40,000 for "a level of persistence and oppressiveness causing eight years of hardship" to Delaney and Doorley.
Four Courts building, Inns Quay, Dublin, Ireland
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Now, Tully is appealing against the decision from February in which he was ordered to restrain from "watching and besetting" his neighbours’ house and from "harassing, intimidating and abusing the defendants and their two children".
The case had initially been taken by the Tully family in relation to what they alleged was an encroachment onto their property related to the boundary wall of an extension to the house. This claim was later ruled out, according to the Irish Times.
Delaney and Doorley then had a counterclaim that Tully had tried to "force them out of their home" with "an onslaught of harassment, intimidation and abuse".
The pair claimed Tully placed a skull on their boundary to intimidate their children, that he backed a truck onto the boundary and left the engine running; that he threw children’s toys and other debris into their garden, and that he placed a "foul-smelling industrial bin directly adjacent to where the defendants’ children play."
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Paul Tully of Kimmage Road West is involved in the dispute
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In July 2023, Tully received a criminal conviction in relation to the harassment and was given a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
Representing the Tully family in court, Barney Quirke SC said Tully had been "railroaded on this case at every turn" and was the victim of "a grave injustice".
He argued that "the intimidation and harassment was the other way around" and that the Court of Appeal would "hear the true story of what has happened between these two parties."
Quirke made an application to adjourn the appeal saying that certain expert witnesses were not in the country and that he was "not ready for this trial".
David Dodd, BL argued for Delaney and Doorley that the application for an adjournment should be refused.
He told the court: "This is a serious case from my clients’ perspective, they’ve been through the wringer, they want finality."
Judge Niamh Hyland granted the adjournment until April 25, at which point it will be given a date for a full hearing.