Hotel car park appears where Neville Presho left his Tory Island retreat to work abroad
Isolated from the Irish mainland, ruggedly beautiful and home to a Gaelic-speaking community, Tory island has attracted a host of artists, film-makers and writers since the 1950s.
Irish film-maker Neville Presho was one of those fortunate to have a 19th-century stone house on the island - or so he thought. When he returned to the Atlantic island in 1994 after living in New Zealand for six years, he found his home missing and a hotel car park in its place.
Today, Presho was awarded €60,000 (£54,000) in compensation and costs for the loss of his home after Mr Justice Murphy ruled at Dublin high court he was entitled to a new house or its equivalent market value. The film-maker had sued the Ostan Thoraigh Comhlacht Teoranta hotel and its owner, Patrick Coohan.
The case has now been adjourned...
Isolated from the Irish mainland, ruggedly beautiful and home to a Gaelic-speaking community, Tory island has attracted a host of artists, film-makers and writers since the 1950s.
Irish film-maker Neville Presho was one of those fortunate to have a 19th-century stone house on the island - or so he thought. When he returned to the Atlantic island in 1994 after living in New Zealand for six years, he found his home missing and a hotel car park in its place.
Today, Presho was awarded €60,000 (£54,000) in compensation and costs for the loss of his home after Mr Justice Murphy ruled at Dublin high court he was entitled to a new house or its equivalent market value. The film-maker had sued the Ostan Thoraigh Comhlacht Teoranta hotel and its owner, Patrick Coohan.
The case has now been adjourned...
- 11/11/2009
- by Henry McDonald
- The Guardian - Film News
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