Brian O'Donnell loses appeal; couple must vacate Gorse Hill

A bankrupt lawyer-turned-property speculator has been given two weeks to leave his former mansion after losing his appeal against repossession.

Brian O'Donnell and his psychiatrist wife Mary Patricia have until the end of the month at the luxury house known as Gorse Hill, at Killiney, overlooking Dublin Bay, to consider a Supreme Court challenge against the Court of Appeal ruling.