Pensioners ‘illegally evicted’ from rented home, court told

Dublin pensioners Martin and Violet Coyne were "illegally" evicted from the house they had rented for 15 years, a court has been told.

Barrister Suzanne Boylan told the Circuit Civil Court yesterday that the Coynes’ eviction by the county sheriff yesterday morning had been “rough-handled”, as the couple had to leave the house without their possessions and clothes and money.

Ms Boylan said the sheriff had been in breach of a statutory provision of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009, which prohibits the seizure by the sheriff of a domestic tenancy.