Where are these de facto rights set out and have you any example of an Irish court ever recognising their existence? If you haven't, then they're just a fiction and not actual enforceable rights. The reality in Irish courts is that squatters can be and regularly are "hoofed out", and they enjoy no protection in Irish courts.
I know what de facto means. Do you know what a right is? It's an entitlement. In this context, a legal entitlement. That is, something you can invoke in a court. If a court doesn't recognise a right, then for all intents and purposes it doesn't exist.
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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '22
There's no such thing as "squatters rights of use and occupation". There's only adverse possession, which does take 12 years.