Sean Dunne it now transpires is also being pursued by his first wife, Jennifer Coyle, in family law proceedings
commenced in the High Court and, following a number of High Court orders, he has appealed to the Supreme Court.
One of the orders made in the High Court required that Gayle Killilea sign an irrevocable power of attorney over land in Clonskeagh formerly owned by the Irish Glass Bottle Employee’s Club and purchased by Sean Dunne and Sean Mulryan of Ballymore developments for €18 million in 2003. The power of attorney will be invoked in the event of the Supreme Court upholding the High Court decision.
Dunne told NAMA that he surrendered in December 2008 his 50% interest in the land to Gayle Killilea in partial settlement of a debt he owed her after remortgaging their family home in Shrewsbury Road, Dublin 4 for business financing.
Jennifer Coyle is represented by Edmund Butler, Solicitor, of LK Shields in the family law proceedings and he received the power of attorney from Jerry O’Brien, Solicitor, of John C Walsh & Co who represent Killilea and with whom she has lodged the original deeds. Edmund Butler has filed Killilea’s power of attorney in the Registry of Deeds.
Bankruptcy proceedings
In a separate development in Dunne’s bankruptcy proceedings in Connecticut, US, Richard Coen, Dunne’s US bankruptcy trustee, obtained a court order to cross examine a representative of Liffey Van Lines INC., a New York removals company. Coen is seeking information about Dunne’s assets and their location.