A local authority breached its duty to a teenage girl with cerebral palsy by failing to take certain steps to improve the conditions of a caravan in which she lived along with eight other members of her Traveller family, the Supreme Court has ruled.

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”.

A solicitor was ordered by a judge to phone his father to tell him to leave his mansion on one of Ireland’s most exclusive addresses.

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.

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.

A judge’s view that solicitor Brian O’Donnell moved to England to secure a "benign bankruptcy" and avoid his creditors is "entirely irrelevant" to whether he should have been adjudicated bankrupt here, his lawyer has told the Supreme Court.

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.