Gang drove security out of repossessed bungalow

Security guards employed to protect a repossessed house whose owners failed to repay their mortgage were assaulted and driven out by people allegedly associated with anti-eviction campaigners, the High Court has heard.

One of the guards told of a “most terrifying” incident last Saturday when a group of men broke down shuttering and doors on the house before driving out the security men with weapons.

The court granted an injunction preventing Patricia McLeish, who owned the bungalow at Coolisteague, Clonlara, Tulla, Co Clare, from interfering with the security company employed by Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank to repossess the house. The interim injunction also applies to her two sons Shane and Mark McLeish and any other persons with knowledge of the order.