Two property developers have each received suspended prison sentences for breaching fire regulations at a Dublin apartment block.

Thomas McFeely was last week given a six-month suspended sentence and fined 3000 Euros, and Laurence O’Mahony was sentenced to one month suspended and fined 1,000 Euros for fire safety breaches at the Priory Hall apartment complex.

Dublin District Court was told that the breaches included a lack of automated opening vents in common areas, exposed gas pipes and a lack of vents in the basement car parks.

The developers had previously been the subject of fire safety enforcement proceedings at another Dublin apartment block which was threatened with compulsory evacuation because of a failure to comply with the Fire Service Act. All the terms of the fire safety notice have since been completed to the satisfaction of the Dublin Fire Brigade.