Gript has learned that a man has been arrested after scaffolding was erected to prevent him from entering his dwelling in South County Dublin.
Derrick O’Shaughnessey was allegedly arrested at the property on Annaville Rd. Blackrock earlier today after a man claiming to own the land erected fencing in an attempt to seize the house by force.
It is understood that the situation has been ongoing for several months and that scaffolding has been erected and subsequently removed on several occasions.
O’Shaughnessey told Gript that he has been living in the house, a small cottage on an area of land, for the past 5 years, and that it is legally his as he inherited it from his late grandfather.
The property has been in his family since the 1960s.
Gript has seen documentation outlining the involvement of two firms of solicitors in the case and it is understood that solicitors acting on behalf of O’Shaughnessy have instructed that a named individual desist “besetting behaviour” in regards attempts to take the property from him.
Gardai arrested O’Shaughnessey after he re-entered the cottage after the latest attempt to blockade it.