Rose Murray, was on The Claire Byrne Show to discuss the demolition of the house without planning permission she built with her husband Chris in 2006
The demolition of a house that was built 20 years ago without planning permission is expected to go ahead in Co. Meath on Thursday.
Chris and Rose Murray made five failed attempts to get retention, and they told Amy Molloy in the Irish Independent that they feel they are being treated worse than the Kinahans.
Claire Byrne spoke to Rose this morning and asked her what she knows about the plans to demolish her home today.
Ms Murray told the Claire Byrne Show the demolition crowds were ready to demolish her house built without planning permission on Thursday.
“There's a warrant out for myself and my husband's arrest the last few weeks”, she told Newstalk.
“I left the country because I was going to be arrested for living in my own house for the last 20 years. I can't come home because I will be arrested.”
She was mum about her husband Chris’ whereabouts as he remains missing.
When security guards came to inspect the property ahead of demolition they found her 19-year old son Tadhg.
“He was at home and 20 masked security men with balaclavas on them came into the house, escorted by a load of Gardaí and a member from the county council gave him an eviction notice,told him to pack his bag and get out of the house.
“They changed all the locks and security men stayed there.
“My son was turfed out onto the street. They gave him a phone number for a bed and breakfast that he could go and stay in and security was put on the house.”
She told the Claire Byrne Show that they were eventually able to retrieve their belongings and had put up steel containers in the entrance as a means of ‘protection’.
They had previously given an undertaking to vacate the premises by September of 2022 as Meath County Council were trying to pursue a sterilisation agreement on the house to say that it was enforced before they bought the site in 2006.
Ms Murray expressed appreciation for the support the community had shown the family.
“The whole parish came behind us yesterday evening and I will be eternally grateful to everybody. They all came out in force and they were marvelous”, she said.
They said their offers to donate the house to charity in the midst of the housing crisis had been rejected.
“It's barbaric what they were doing to us”, she said.
“I don't want to be arrested at Dublin Airport. For what? I'm not a criminal.”
Meath County Council has been contacted for comment. Co Meath family who built house without planning permission evicted
