In September, councillors in the Borough District of Drogheda voted to rescind the freedom of the town from Edmund Garvey, which passed by a tight margin of five votes to four.
Drogheda councillors are to meet in private on Monday afternoon to discuss the legal action that was commenced and subsequently withdrawn on behalf of Brother Edmund Garvey, the former head of the Christian Brothers, who was ‘no longer recognised as a Freeman of the town” after a vote last September.
Ken Grace had to sue all surviving members of the congregation from the 1980s because of congregation’s decision not to appoint a nominee for the purposes of the litigation