Nugent gives €1.3m apartment to bank

Jim Nugent, who famously gave a “dig-out” to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has had the €1.3m D4 apartment at Haseldene, Ballsbridge, handed back to a bank.

Nugent, of Maple 6, in a plush gated apartment block development off Anglesea Rd, and wife Mary Nugent, also known as Mary T Monaghan, were sued for repossession by KBC Bank Ireland plc.

Barrister Rudi Neuman Shanahan, in a three-minute hearing in the Circuit Civil Court, said the bank was seeking possession of the property. A firm of solicitors for the Nugents was neither consenting nor objecting to the order being made.