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.

A young couple with a new baby and three other children said yesterday they had a lender’s application to repossess their rural home “sprung upon them”.

TEN pre-crisis bank directors have stayed on in bailed-out institutions despite a Government promise to clear out the boards who presided over failed lending practices.