O’Donnells given two weeks to vacate after losing appeal

Retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia have two weeks before they have to vacate their home, Gorse Hill.

The couple yesterday lost an appeal against a High Court order that they vacate the home on the Vico Road in Killiney, Co Dublin.

The Court of Appeal’s Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan, presiding, said the family can remain there until April 29 to allow them seek to appeal to the Supreme Court on a point of exceptional public importance.