Late Late Showhost Pat Kenny, who is claiming squatters rights over a €1million patch of land beside his Dalkey home, was directed by the High Court today to allow experts on to it for inspection purposes.
Mr Justice Frank Clarke said a dispute over the land between Pat and Cathy Kenny and next door neighbours Gerard and Maeve Charlton was marked with a considerable degree of acrimony on both sides.
"Unfortunately it would appear that this level of acrimony has spilled over to an unusual degree into the positions which have been adopted by both parties solicitors," he said.
The Charltons claim to be the legal owners of the rocky outcrop over which the ownership war is being waged in the exclusive Dublin suburb.
The Kennys contest the Charltons title and claim any title they may have had to the property has been extinguished by adverse possession (squatters rights).
Judge Clarke said were it not for the acrimonious atmosphere in which legal proceedings over ownership was being conducted it seemed unlikely that applications to the High Court over inspection of documents and lands would have been necessary at all.