Supreme Court dismisses Ben Gilroy's appeal over possession order for family home

Start Mortgages DAC claimed that the couple fell into arrears in relation to a mortgage advanced by it to them in 2007 and had not made any repayments for many years

The political candidate and anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy (pictured) and his wife claimed an alleged fraud allegedly took place between the mortgage lender and a solicitor who had previously acted for them. File picture: Collins Courts

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by political candidate and anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy and his wife Sarah Jane Gilroy against a decision to grant a mortage company a possession order for their home.

In a written determination, a panel of three Supreme Court judges held that no point of general public importance that the court needed to consider had been raised by the Gilroys.