The Taoiseach has said that it is "peculiar" that a couple evicted from their Dublin home this week did not make arrangements to live somewhere else.

Members of the Occupy Dame Street protest movement have travelled to the former Dublin home of Brendan and Asta Kelly to pledge support for the couple.

THERE is a sense of ivory tower delusion around the extraordinary story of a well-heeled Killiney couple who have vowed to fight a repossession order which put them out of their plush five-bedroom home.

Reaction to the plight of Brendan and Asta Kelly has been mixed — just like the fortunes of the elderly couple.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said today that he was distressed and saddened at the eviction of an elderly couple from their home in his constituency.

An elderly couple who were yesterday evicted from their Dublin home say Anglo Irish Bank refused to hold talks with them in the days before the repossession.