This morning.
Brian O Donnell leaving Gorse Hill in Killiney with Dr Mary Patricia O’Donnell* (above). Mr O’Donnell is expected in the High Court court this morning in another fight to remain at the home. Proceedings get under way at 11am.
Previously: Gorse Hill And The Right Of Residence
* Probably someone else (see comments).
Photocall Ireland
Meanwhile…
What Goes Up writes:
“In homage to the Oscar nominated Last Days In Vietnam, I present the Irish version, Last Days In Vico Road.”
UPDATE:
Brian O’Donnell and son Blake arriving at the High Court this morning.
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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Ní chuirimid cúram
Those sunglasses do nothing to distract from that mean mouth.
OMG Broadsheet – you sure have changed your tune since the last time indebted speculators were evicted from their Killiney home.
How could you have become so heartless
In fairness, Mrs O’Donnell looks “shook”. However, she and her husband have no one to blame but themselves. The fact that the “family home” was held in a company structure, shows that they were sophisticated investors. They gambled and lost. They have prolonged their own suffering by dragging this through the courts and coming up with a new defence every time the court rules against them. It is a big fall from grace from them, but they should NEVER have used the “family home” as security for an investment. I find it extremely hard to feel any bit of sorrow for them.
That’s DOCTOR O’Donnell to the likes of you, wage slave…
Mary Patricia to her friends. NEVER Mary or Patricia though.
No mother of a Blaise, a Blake, a Bruce and an Alexandra could ever be merely Patricia or Mary.
I heard her referred to on RTE as Mary Pat the other night, which seemed a bit downmarket, but then we now know that it’s only a bog-standard house.
Bog standard for Vico rd like!
The IT are saying that is not her at the gates….
It is not thought the woman who opened the gates was Mary Patricia O’Donnell. She is understood to be still in the house.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/brian-o-donnell-tells-court-family-faced-impossible-timescales-1.2127251
I take it back so, Dr. O’Donnell is not looking “shook”.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
We that comparison ….wtf like… Rabble were comparing it to Waco earlier ffs!
Fools gambled. Fools lost.
We? …should be ‘why’
If you watch the “Last Days In Vietnam” documentary it’s striking how the American ambassador refuses to contemplate evacuation even though all those around him are both urging him to do so and also making plans in spite of him.
It’s a great study in how those in power, on the loss of it, refuse to accept reality.
greedy folk don’t like to lose.
I know what’d look good there, a terracotta urn like vase like pot inset into the wall
it’s really a shrine to c’thulu
Could the bank not have had a fella in the bushes outside waiting to change the locks & chain up the gates to stop them getting back in? … or something?
A few strategically placed loudspeakers and “Who let the dogs out” on loop would do the job.
Am i the only one who is thinking “fair play to them”. I don’t like what their doing but no matter how much I owed I’d fight tooth and nail to keep my home as well. It’s Ireland after all, rich people don’t pay debts. Denis O’brien is testament to that.
Absolutely right. Which is why their stance is to be applauded. If they succeed in driving a wedge between banking amorality and the popular right wing trash talking mediah they’ll have done the state some service.
Seriously? His total debt was the guts of a billion. Not a million, a billion. He’s just as complicit as any amoral banking institution you care to mention. If you think his and your interests coincide, you’re delusional. He wouldn’t spit on the plebs.
You’re apportioning a degree of moral superiority served with a soupcon of superciliousness. He’s just another creditor. The amount owed was approved for his loan as in any other case.
When we see some bank guys hung out to dry in the same way we can start dishing out the medals.
If YOU want to pay for him to live in his mansion, go right ahead.
technically, they claim it’s not their home. they’re claiming a right of residence granted by their children.
but yeeeeaaaaahhhh, whatever.
The property is owned by a company. Some of the shares in the company are owned by a trust, which was established for the benefit of the children. The property is not owned by the children and therefore the children cannot grant a right of residency to the parents.
yep, all clear thanks to LCD. doesn’t make it any less funny tho
if the so called land league weren’t involved, which is just a front for fianna fail Galway tent, I might have some sympathy. then again……….
Can’t believe they have been reduced to driving a Ford Focus like mere animals, have they not suffered enough
Rental car most likely. They don’t actually live in Ireland. They live in London, like so many Irish who went there to avoid paying their debts.
I cant believe they have to rent a ford focus like animals!!
They’re just going to have to accept reality, and downgrade to a bog standard €2m gaf in Dundrum!
Tbh, the glee that people are showing over this family losing their home is a bit disturbing.
They shouldn’t have used it as security for an investment loan. No one to blame but themselves.
I agree wholeheartedly. Looks like the empathy chip has shorted out in so many of us. There but for the Grace etc. holds little purchase on souls.
o’donnells should have done an ‘iceland dude’ and drove a bulldozer through the gaff.
Nope, not empathy chip missing. Their own actions have brought this on themselves.
They were property speculators who failed to diversify when they had the chance.
In their bankruptcy case in London, they produced receipts for a burial plot there as Ireland was no longer home.
They claimed London was..
http://www.herald.ie/news/were-out-of-here-socialites-quit-dublin-and-their-75m-debt-28961753.html
Given that he has a legal background, using freeman arguments in court was laughable.
Even after bankruptcy, they could afford to take high court and supreme court cases. Hardly indicates being broke.
They had more options than most to deal with their problems but chose to stick their head in the sand.
As for their New Land League friends, they are a farce. run by another property speculator who owed 3.5 million to Ulster Bank and has tried and failed to use the same freeman arguments in court.
The O’Donells are not broke. They have resources and am sure it hurts like hell to lose on the scale that they have,
There are many people in this country who have my deep sympathy, but not this pair.
I’m familiar with the financial background to the story but the précis is appreciated. Schadenfreude in such cases speaks to the basest part of our nature – barely a remove from taunting ‘lunatics’ in Bedlam. I may well think they’re a bunch of greedy pricks, but losing a home can cut deep.
you mean losing one of many homes that they listed as company assets to avoid tax. yeah, i’m sure that cuts deep.
You see schadenfreude ……I see happiness that at least some small amount of justice is being done in this country.
As I said, greedy fellows. Doesn’t mean I’ll roll out the tumbrils.
@ Scarey
Justice for what exactly? Losing a bit of money? Such nonsense. This crap should not even be allowed in the High Court wasting valuable resources. If our legislators got their fingers out of their fupping holes and put in a robust bankruptcy law like in any other first world country we wouldn’t be wasting so much time and resources on these spendthrifts
It’s not their primary residence, it’s a palatial mansion they happen to have in addition to their home which they purchased through a company to avoid paying the tax the rest of us are forced to pay. They then put it up as collateral for a business loan, which in part they now owe to you, me and everyone else – it’s not glee per se, more satisfaction that at least one wealthy gambler will be pursued for his debts while regular people are being hounded day and night.
What did you expect from the snarky majority of asswipes who currently are resident on this board?
The door is wide open Joe, don’t let it hit your ass on the way out.
Is this their holiday home or their first home??
They claimed London as their primary residence when they were trying to get bankruptcy there. When that didn’t work, all of a sudden this is the most precious place on Earth to them and they can’t bear to part with it.
that red land leaguer VW is gone? probably off to the NCT centre as it was alleged to have been on the road illegally – gardai must have given him a ticket
“Alleged” but you repeat it anyway.
just as a matter of interest. They owe 70+ million, but are they actually servicing the loans or is the bank trying to snatch a property as part payment for the loan?
If they are not servicing it and trying to get a write down on their loans, then they can fup off out of there. Knock it down, built 100 apartments and allocate 80 of them for social housing.
Lots of Stalin’s useful idiots out in force today. “Hurr durr de banks.”
hello, yes?
2 eggs good, nest eggs bad?
Ooh look! Pat Kenny has his very own GorseHill-Gate
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/battle-for-gorse-hill-to-cost-kennys-up-to-2m-26437604.html
I’ve gone from having a smidgen of sympathy for this couple to wishing they would get their brass necks out of the jurisdiction.