The High Court has made orders that around 70 Travellers’ caravans parked on lands in the Curragh, Co Kildare, should leave immediately.
Some of the caravan dwellers were hostile when security company personnel, accompanied by gardaí and military police, served papers on them notifying them of injunction proceedings brought against them by the Minister for Defence, who owns the land, the court also heard.
The servers "encountered some hostility from some who were refusing to leave and said they would remain there no matter what", Kelley Smith, prosecuting barrister for the minister, told the court.
Thursday's orders were the latest in a number that have been made since Travellers’ caravans began arriving in the last couple of months on the lands which have a number of uses, including related to the racecourse and Defence Force training.
Caravans parking on the land each summer have been a problem for decades because of the interference with those...
