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Solicitor Brian O’Donnell arriving at the High Courts with his daughter Blaise last month

The house always wins. Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland UPDATE:

UPDATE:

Previously: Return To The Hill

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22 thoughts on “Gorsed Out

  1. Joe the Lion

    I know we’re not supposed to comment on the appearance of women but Hells Blaises she’s pretty hot

    1. Joe the Lion

      And you know what they say about a bird in the (gorse) bush – jaysus I’m being a right prick today ;)

    2. bertie blenkinsop

      The fact that she wouldn’t touch me with a bargepole just makes me love her more.

      1. Spaghetti Hoop

        And that was published under ‘News’.
        Holy Jaysus, Blaise’s Blouses and Joseph but that’s shockin’.

    3. Bingo

      She’s got the face of someone who’s whose inheritance is after getting a nice bit smaller….

  2. gorugeen

    Job well done by Daddy ODonnell. raison d’etre for this whole saga is to cost BOI loads of money, time, resources and patience. twas nowt but a big ol’ personal vendetta driven by astounding arrogance and spite. Most entertaining stuff methinks.

    1. Joe the Lion

      The O’Donnells had argued there are a number of grounds on which the bankruptcy should be set aside.

      Mr O’Donnell argued one of those grounds was that it was never BOI he dealt with but Bank of Ireland Private Banking (BOIPB) which is not a licensed bank.

      “It is like Ulster Bank loaning money and Bank of Scotland pursuing the case”, he told the court.

      All the correspondence, the drawdown of monies, bank statements were from BOIBP and not BOI, he said. The Central Bank had confirmed there was no such thing as a licence covering a group and BOIPB was in any case an intermediary, not a bank.

      Mr O’Donnell had also challenged a sworn statement put in opposition to the annulment challenge from an official in the bank, Brian O’Connor, its specialist property group director.

      Mr O’Connor was “a lowly official”, Mr O’Donnell said, who could only provide hearsay evidence in relation to their case.

      On the other hand, he had said, there was an “rugby team” of 15 people who had greater knowledge of this case, including bank CEO Richie Boucher and finance director Andrew Keating.

      The reason this had been done was because Mr O’Connor could not be cross-examined in relation to his evidence, he told the court.

      It was also done so that some of the more senior officials who could have given statements would not end up giving self incriminating evidence in relation to the unlicensed status of BOIPB, he said.

      – this could easily yet prevail on appeal. He’s a very clever man indeed.

  3. bisted

    …we may soon know the answer to that age old question: how many bankers does it take to replace a light bulb?

  4. Dubloony

    So are the Land League going to be there for the actually move out. Will the sheriff be involved now?
    Have enormous sympathy for people in difficult circumstances but not for this pair.

  5. Continuity Jay-Z

    They should stop with the appeal and buy as much cider and meow meow as humanly possibly and drop a dime on Favebook inviting teenagers to a house party.

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