€2m family law settlement sealed with a kiss

A settlement of long-running family law proceedings between a now divorced husband and wife, involving a €2m payment to the woman from the sale proceeds of the “magnificent” family home, has been sealed at the Supreme Court with a kiss.

The man and woman, who married in the late 1960s and had a number of children before separating in the mid 1980s and later divorcing, smiled at each other and the man kissed the woman on the cheek after the Supreme Court agreed the settlement reached between them on consent.

Both are aged in their 60s and, by court order, nothing may be published that might identify them.