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The Irish Times reports that the High Court has permitted Fingal [North Dublin] County Council to scrap the former wooden minesweeper Portisham on which Mr Shane Kennedy lives in Balbriggan Harbour, which is run by the council. It maintained that the boat suffered from “rotting timbers, water being taken on, lack of electrical and radio services, lack of working sanitation and generally unsafe conditions aboard”. The court permitted the council to have the boat towed to Howth to be broken up; it awarded costs against Mr Kennedy, who says that he intends to appeal.