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.

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.

A last-ditch bid by retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife to prevent a bank-appointed receiver taking possession of their former family home in Killiney, Co Dublin, at noon today has failed at the Supreme Court.

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.

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 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 has asked the Court of Appeal if he and his wife should “continue to pack up” their belongings pending an early morning appeal of a High Court order to vacate their property at 5pm today.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell yesterday objected to two different commercial court judges hearing an application involving himself, his wife and two sons, in an action brought by Bank of Ireland.

It was the “Southie Selfie” that showed just how important the day of Irish celebration is to the most powerful in Boston politics.

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 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.

Say hola to Spain’s three most famous O’Donnell brothers.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his psychiatrist wife Mary, who got into debt after investing millions in property, have failed in their latest bid to be declared bankrupt in Britain.

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.

Using economics to justify closing our embassy to the Holy See prompted one Dublin mother to say stop, writes Mary E Fitzgibbon

THE O’Donnell Kennels in Killenaule are back in the headlines with young puppy Skip Soda winning a lot of admirers in the Festival Open Unraced Stake at Clonmel.

A BRITISH woman has been charged with racially aggravated harassment after a neighbour complained about a golliwog displayed in her window.

The Commercial Court has heard a Dublin solicitor, who is being pursued for €69m, claims Bank of Ireland told him it would be flexible in relation to property loans and guarantees.