Keane still battling to keep Sandymount hotel

In the past three weeks, under relentless pressure from a Goldman Sachs vulture fund, mother of two and bed-and-breakfast owner Ann Keane has been pushed a step closer to homelessness.

Earlier this month, a Court of Appeal ruling ended Keane’s protracted legal battle to stave off repossession of Aberdeen Lodge in Sandymount, Dublin a boutique Edwardian hotel on leafy Park Avenue, that doubles as her family home.

While the keys have not yet ...