A man has been ordered by the High Court to leave a house bought by developer Tom McFeely before he was declared bankrupt.

A mother of two, who has spent the last four months in prison for failing to comply with court orders to vacate a €1m property in south Dublin, walked free from the High Court yesterday after purging her contempt.

The woman, whose two teenage children remain in the property, was jailed by the High Court on April 27 last over contempt of possession orders granted to EBS Ltd in 2015 which were upheld on appeal but stayed to April 2017.

The closure of the well-known sports pub co-owned by former rugby international Peter Clohessy coincided with a receiver being appointed to assets owned by the business, new documents show.