Independent election candidate, his sons and a business partner charged with breaching pandemic rules after gardaí found them upstairs in pub in April 2020A former lord mayor of Dublin, who is seeking to be reelected to the city council next week, has lost a High Court challenge to the Covid-19 regulations after he and three others were charged with breaching them more than four years ago.
Under the pandemic regulations at the time, a person could not travel more than 2km from home unless it was for an essential purpose. All four men live in Clontarf.The sad story of the actor with a drawer full of cheques he just can’t cashAndhra Bhavan review: I immediately added this Dublin 1 restaurant to my list of favourites
As a result, he said, the statutory instruments making the regulations did not appear on the order paper of the Seanad, prior to their enforceability. Therefore, the plaintiffs argued, the regulations did not have adequate oversight from the legislative branch of the State. He said they argued that the regulations did not have adequate oversight from the legislative branch of the State and, in circumstances where criminal liability attached to certain matters, the regulations themselves constituted an impermissible delegation of legislative function.