Billionaire President Donald Trump sends his lawyers to tiny Irish courthouse after he ordered to pay £12,600

Donald Trump sent lawyers to a tiny Irish courthouse
in a bid to overturn a £12,600 court judgement against
him.
The billionaire US President took on civil engineer
John V Lennon on Tuesday, who racked up the bill
objecting to Trump’s plan for a 200,000-tonne rock
barrier at his Co Clare golf resort.
Mr Lennon sent the invoice to the President and when
it went unpaid, secured a court judgement in June
forcing the property magnate to cough up, the Irish
Mirror reports.
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But lawyers for the world’s most powerful man asked
a judge in Kilrush district court in Clare to set the
€14,095 bill aside.
Mr Lennon, from Cork, said he had the court order
with him yesterday.
He had previously stated the €14,095 sum arose from
work he put into lodging an objection against plans for
a “rock wall” at the President’s famous Doonbeg golf
course.
Trump later withdrew the barrier plan in favour of a
scaled down planning application which is currently
before Clare County Council.
Mr Lennon claims the US President wasted his time
as he lodged a written six-page objection to the large
scale plan.
When the case was called yesterday, barrister Pat
Whyms, appearing on behalf of the billionaire, told the
judge: “It is my application to set aside judgement.”
He said his application “is dealt with on submissions
but there are complex issues and it could take up to
30 minutes”.
Mr Lennon represented himself in court and told
Judge Durcan: “An order was made for me to collect
€14,095 and €725 costs against Donald J Trump.”
In reply, Judge Durcan said: “Obviously the order has
been made by the court, but it is open to the
respondent (Mr Trump) as in this case to make an
application pursuant to court rules and the court has
to deal with it.”
He added: “This matter, I’m told, will take some time
and it is a heavy criminal list today.”
The case was adjourned until December 12 for
hearing in Ennis.
Mr Lennon previously clashed with the Trump firm
through his involvement in a planned wind-farm at
Doonbeg that was shot down by planning appeals
chiefs An Bord Pleanala in 2015.
Outside court, he said he began proceedings
concerning the €14,095 bill against Mr Trump when he
was a private citizen and before he was sworn in as
President of the United States.
Before taking office Mr Trump resigned as a director
of the two Trump Doonbeg resort firms.

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