Former gossip columnist Gayle Killilea should not have to meet bankruptcy official case, High Court is told

A 2019 verdict made Gayle Killilea liable to pay €18m in damages to the bankruptcy trustee. Photo: Collins

Tim Healy

Former newspaper social columnist Gayle Killilea has been at the “sharp end” of litigation for 12 years and should not have to meet a 2014 Irish case brought against her by the trustee of the bankruptcy of her Celtic Tiger-era developer ex-husband, Seán Dunne, the High Court has been told.

The issues in the Irish proceedings against her, concerning alleged fraudulent transfer of assets between the former spouses, was or should have been decided in a separate case taken in the United States, said her lawyer as he opened an application seeking a strike-out of the case.