A keen soccer player, who broke his ankle while playing in frosty conditions on an astro-turf pitch, has lost a €60,000 personal injuries claim against a Dublin school and a company that organised fun, seven-a-side matches.

A company director who was served with legal proceedings last Saturday checked himself into St John of God’s the following day, the High Court has heard.

The developer Laurence O’Mahony, his wife Christine Connolly, and their three children will not be spending Christmas at the luxurious €6m home taken off them earlier this week by Nama.

Developer Laurence O’Mahony, and his wife, Christine Connolly, have been told that the Trustee in Bankruptcy in Britain, where he declared himself bankrupt, will not oppose a claim by National Asset Loan Management to re-possess the couple’s €6 million Ballsbridge home.