COURT: Neighbours complain over noise produced by Kildare Leaving Cert drumming student

Noise produced by Leaving Certificate drumming student was the subject of a complaint at Naas District Court.

At a previous hearing a bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a woman whose house is the subject of a noise complaint.

It happened after Judge Desmond heard complaints of incessant and loud music and drum playing coming from a dwelling in Kilcullen.

Two neighbours of the house brought the complaint, alleging a breach of the Environmental Protection Agency Act on a date in July.

The court heard that the noise included the playing of drums into a loudspeaker.

The allegation was first made in July and this was adjourned.

A neighbour told the court that the noise is amplified through electrical equipment and was being generated by children of a neighbour.

She said that the woman would not engage with her. She also said she had moved three times within her home to try to escape the noise. She further said she had called to the house at 1.30am and 3am.

Another neighbour said this had been going on for two years and his toddler’s sleep had been disrupted and he also said he could not go into the garden because of the noise.

Judge Desmond Zaidan said that while the Leaving Cert exam is a priority and he understood that the teenager had to practice, this could not happen at all hours of the day or night.

The boy’s mother told the court he does not play in the house but in a music room built in a back garden.

Judge Zaidan urged that an agreement be reached with neighbours about the drum playing.

He adjourned the case to December 19.

The judge also said that the objecting neighbours must attend on that date adding “If they don’t come I’ll strike it out.”

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