Solicitor Brian O’Donnell has said Bank of Ireland “set fire” to his business and “bullied” his family over the Gorse Hill property.

These bank AGMs have turned out some right fun in recent years. It’s an opportunity for the little people to have a go at the shower of bankers who dragged the economy over the abyss, yet managed to save themselves.

Solicitor Brian O'Donnell has until noon today to leave his former home at Gorse Hill in South Dublin.

Gardaí are hunting for a man wanted in the UK in connection with rape, theft, and assault allegations; Usain Bolt is set to conquer the screens with a road to Rio film; a Russian supply spacecraft spins out of control and Brendan O'Connor’s Saturday Night Show is under fire over comments made about US President Barack Obama. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this evening.

Retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia have two weeks before they have to vacate their home, Gorse Hill.

Police have again began searching the back garden of the apartment where missing Cork student Karen Buckley was last seen,  Brian O'Donnell has lost his appeal against the repossession of his former mansion and Jurgen Klopp leaves Dortmund. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

Brian and Mary Patricia O’Donnell can remain in the former family home until April 15 after a court yesterday said it would not rule on their latest legal challenge until that date.

Solicitor Brian O'Donnell is back before the Court of Appeal this afternoon, as the legal battle around the Gorse Hill mansion in South Dublin rumbles on.

A decision in an appeal by retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia over a finding they are trespassing on the former family home is expected before the end of next week.

The wife of retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell, Mary Patricia O’Donnell, has told a court she was “perfectly happy” her husband was appealing an order they leave their former family home.

Thousands of people drowning in “unsustainable” mortgage debt could have their properties bought by the State and turned into local authority units in a bid to help them stay in their homes, under a proposal put to Department of Finance officials today.  

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife have been granted an extension until 2pm next Thursday by the Court of Appeal to challenge a High Court direction ordering them to vacate a property on Gorse Hill.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell says he will bring in expert witnesses on banking regulation as part of the latest challenge by him and his wife Mary Patricia to their bankruptcy, the High Court heard yesterday.

The adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell have been reduced to couch-surfing since being forced out of their Gorse Hill home, which their father has refused to vacate.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell claims he and his wife have paid €700m to banks worldwide but Bank of Ireland is the only one to have “persecuted us for five years”.

The journalist Vincent Browne has led reporters on to solicitor Brian O'Donnell's Gorse Hill property in South Dublin.

Let’s hear the case for the defence, at a time when most of the country is gunning to prosecute. The O’Donnell family at the centre of the siege of Gorse Hill are not the class of people likely to elicit sympathy in these days of austerity and want.

A bid by the adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell to prevent a bank-appointed receiver taking over the family home was rejected by the High Court yesterday.

A solicitor turned billion euro property investor is facing eviction from a mansion on one of Ireland’s most exclusive addresses after a judge refused a last minute plea from his family to halt a repossession.

A High Court judge wants evidence as to what has been happening at a house in Killiney, Dublin, after he was told solicitor Brian O’Donnell has barricaded himself inside it to prevent a bankappointed receiver taking it over.

The adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell have been told by the Supreme Court they must leave their Co Dublin luxury home next month so it may be taken over by a bank-appointed receiver.

The adult children of solicitor Brian O'Donnell are in the Supreme Court trying to stop Bank of Ireland from taking possession of their luxury home in Killiney in Dublin.

The four adult children of bankrupt solicitor Brian O’Donnell are to appeal a High Court ruling that allowed Bank of Ireland possession of their home in Killiney, Co Dublin.

The four adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell have lost their High Court action aimed at preventing Bank of Ireland getting possession of their luxury home in Killiney, Co Dublin.

The four adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell were required to provide statutory declarations they had no interest in their luxury home in Killiney, Co Dublin, in an effort to get their parents “off the hook” for €71m, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

A challenge by the adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell to the appointment of a receiver over their luxury home has opened at the Commercial Court.

The adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell do not have the resources to fight a case in the big business division of the High Court, it was claimed yesterday.

A daughter of a solicitor Brian O’Donnell has appealed orders made by the High Court last Friday directing her to give the bank access to her home or face imprisonment.

THE stories are mainly to be found in the business pages these days, but the lengths to which some of the formerly rich are going to hang onto their assets while not repaying the money borrowed to purchase those trophies, are extraordinary.

A solicitor and his wife were declared bankrupt in London yesterday just as a bank sought to have them questioned in the Dublin High Court over “alarming” discrepancies in statements about their assets.

A legal action by Bank of Ireland against a solicitor and a doctor for nearly €70m owed in property debts may be decided today.

The Commercial Court has heard a Dublin solicitor’s business interests have suffered untold damage as a result of a legal action by Bank of Ireland to recover nearly €70m in unpaid property loans and guarantees.

Chat show host Pat Kenny has resolved a bitter ownership battle with his elderly neighbour over a disputed patch of scrubland, Dublin’s High Court heard today.

AFTER a strong plea by a High Court judge to both sides “to think long and hard” about their dispute over the ownership of Gorse Hill, the Pat Kenny land row is to go to mediation, but the case could be back in court as early as Tuesday if such a move fails.

Chat show host Pat Kenny agreed tonight to out-of-court talks to resolve a bitter ownership row with his elderly neighbour over a disputed patch of scrubland.

RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny and his wife Kathy claim they maintained part of disputed lands on Gorse Hill in Dalkey as a “nature reserve” for foxes and badgers and have a legal claim over it since 1991, which prevents any development of the lands, the High Court heard.

Chat show host Pat Kenny paid €5,000 for a special lease on a patch of disputed scrubland to stop his elderly neighbour building on it, the High Court heard today.

A DISPUTE over ownership of a strip of land between the home of Pat Kenny and his neighbour erupted into physical confrontation shortly after the broadcaster voiced fears that there might be attempts to develop properties in what he called “our enclave” in Dalkey, Dublin, it was claimed in the High Court yesterday.

RTÉ’S highest paid TV and radio star Pat Kenny was yesterday accused of a shocking betrayal of friendship by trying to take possession of a potentially valuable piece of land.