UK comedian Peter Kay at centre of bitter Tipperary land dispute in Nenagh Civil Court
The row, with farmer Michael Quigley, has escalated so intensely that the Phoenix Nights and Car Share star has been summoned to appear in court this month in Nenagh, according to reports.
Peter Kay is at the centre of a bitter boundary dispute over a small portion of land at his Tipperary holiday home, according to the Daily Mail.
The dispute is understood to centre on a small patch of land which both Kay and a local farmer believe they legally own.
The row, with farmer Michael Quigley, has escalated so intensely that the Phoenix Nights and Car Share star has been summoned to appear in court this month.
The hearing of Mr Quigley’s case against the couple has been listed to take place on February 18 at Nenagh Civil Court.
The Quigleys bought the land, mostly farming fields, in 1976, with Michael taking over the property in 2008 – two years after the Kays bought their relatively modest four-bedroom home, which is now worth around €717,000.
Kay, whose mother Deirdre hails from county Tyrone, has owned the second home which is near Ballina and close to Lough Derg in north Tipperary with wife Susan, 53, and, when they were younger, their sons Charlie, 21, and Finley, 18.
But recently the sense of tranquillity his family enjoy there has been undermined as Kay, estimated to be worth around £35m (€42m), has been drawn into an increasingly fraught legal battle over the land between his and a neighbour’s property.
Mr Quigley, who is in his 50s, declined to discuss the case when approached by The Mail on Sunday last week, according to reports.
The amount of land contested is relatively small – it's just a fraction of the Kays' whole plot – but part of it is on the driveway that links their house to the road.
If the court ruling goes against them, then in theory the Kays could end up with some access issues to their own property.