Socialite could lose Dublin home as bank seeks possession over €238k debt

A bank has asked a judge to hand it back a house owned by socialite and businesswoman Hayley Rock on foot of a debt of over €238,000.

Ms Rock, due to celebrate this weekend the second anniversary of her wedding to Belfast businessman Paul Elliot, was not in the Circuit Civil Court yesterday when KBC Bank Ireland plc sought to repossess 40 Briarwood Lawn, Clonsilla, Dublin 15.

Ms Rock’s address appeared on the civil bill as Roselawn Grove, Castleknock, Dublin, but the bank told the court it had loaned her €216,000 in February 2006 to buy the Briarwood property.