Save the Hellfire Club challenged SIPO referral over lobbying law

This report is a localnews.ie summary based on public court reporting and records; sources are listed below.

Save the Hellfire Club and Massy Woods Residents Association challenged a Standards in Public Office Commission referral at the High Court on 1 July 2019 over an alleged breach of political lobbying law. The challenge concerned opposition to a proposed €22m interpretive centre at Dublin’s Hellfire Club.

The court granted leave for the judicial review and stayed any prosecution decision, allowing the respondents to return on 48 hours’ notice. The case was listed to return in October.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.