Couple in Thai adoption wrangle have home repossessed

A couple, who claim they have had to live in Thailand for several years in a bid to adopt their late son’s abandoned child, have lost their Dublin home in a bank repossession case.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane heard in the Circuit Civil Court that in 2009, Christopher and Elizabeth O’Brien’s son died in Thailand, leaving his year-old to the care of its Thai mother, who had since abandoned the child.

James P Evans, solicitor for the O’Briens, said the couple, who owe €117,000 mortgage arrears on their home at 6 the Walk, Cypress Downs, Templeogue, Dublin, were not out of the jurisdiction for financial convenience.