O’Donnells lose bid to have bankruptcy overturned

Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia have failed in their bid to have their bankruptcy overturned.

At the High Court yesterday, Ms Justice Caroline Costello said the O’Donnells had not advanced any new evidence as a basis for an annulment of the bankruptcy obtained against them by Bank of Ireland in 2013.

They had sought to advance arguments which they were either in a position to make, or could with reasonable diligence, have made as early as March 2011, she said.