A case in which a family were ordered to obey a noise curfew after neighbours complained about late-night parties by their adult children and friends has been settled, a court heard yesterday.
Mr Fergus Murray, his wife, Barbara, their daughter, Lynn and her friend and tenant, Ms Clare Taggart-Brennan, had been told last November they must ensure no loud music was played after specific hours at a house which is used as a pre-school creche with upstairs accommodation.
District Court Judge Clare Leonard ordered that there can be no loud or unreasonable noise after 11 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday and after midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
The house at Delaford Avenue, Knocklyon, Dublin, was the Murrays' family home until most of the downstairs was converted to a creche and the upstairs was used as an apartment for the their grown-up daughter. Ms Taggart-Brennan later came in as a tenant.
Neighbours claimed Ms Lynn Murray and Ms Taggart-Brennan held late-night parties, blared music regularly and, when complaints were made, ran up and down stairs and banged on wooden floors.
Yesterday the court heard the case was settled.