A High Court judge has been asked to prevent retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell from defending a bank’s attempt to prevent him trespassing on his former family home at Gorse Hill, Killiney, Dublin.

Retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia are personally liable for the legal costs of their failed bid to have their bankruptcy annulled, the High Court ruled.

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

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

Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia have failed in their bid to have their bankruptcy overturned.

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

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.

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.

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.

Solicitor Brian O'Donnell's application to have the Judge at his High Court hearing recuse himself from the case has been rejected.

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

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.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia have lost a Supreme Court appeal over their bankruptcy.

A High Court judge yesterday rejected claims he was biased when considering Bank of Ireland’s application to have solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his psychiatrist wife, Dr Mary Patricia, declared bankrupt.

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.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell has given responses to questions related to his and his psychiatrist wife's assets that "lack credibility" and are "simply untrue", the Commercial Court heard today.

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.

AN inquest into the death of a man whose defective pacemaker failed on a flight to France heard a warning had been issued by the manufacturer four months earlier, but the hospital failed to inform him.