At the High Court, Jordan Mitchell and Dinicka Ryan gave sworn undertakings before Mr Justice Mark Sanfey to vacate an apartment at Ballycummin Village, Raheen, Co Limerick, within four weeks. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish TimesA couple have avoided being jailed for contempt after they agreed before the High Court to comply with orders to leave an apartment they have been living at for several years.
It claimed the couple repeatedly refused to leave and were wrongfully paying rent to the apartment’s former owner, Conor Hogan.Sinéad Hussey: ‘We treat miscarriages as a blip or something that’s easily forgotten’‘You’re not Irish. You’re not one of us’: Northern students on a year in the South The judge said that while the couple had paid rent to Mr Hogan, he was not entitled to have anything to do with the property.He noted that it was to the couple’s credit that they were not brought before the court by gardaí, and had attended by arrangement without having to be arrested.
John Kennedy SC, for Tarbutus, said his client brought the motion seeking the couple’s attachment and possible committal to prison with great reluctance due to the ongoing refusal to comply with the order to vacate.