June, a widow, lived in a beautiful five bedroom detached property in Dundrum that she had purchase with her husband in 1966. June’s husband Richard passed away in 2000 leaving June alone in the large property. June survived on a state pension and a widow’s pension, June had spent her life as a homemaker and […]

Julia and Martin met in 2005 while on a singles group skiing trip to Chamonix in France. They were initially friends only but love subsequently blossomed. The pair eventually married in 2010. Julia and Martin each owned their own houses and had their own careers. They did not have any children but were very happily […]

Lorraine met David, a widower, in 1999 at a function in the Deelrovers GAA club in Crossmolina. They immediately hit it off and had a lot of common interests particularly a great passion for Mayo GAA. David was fifteen years older than Lorraine and had one daughter Sadhbh from his previous marriage. Sadhbh never got […]

Paul worked as an electrician for Dublin City Council for his entire life. He lived at home with his mother and never married. When he died, on his own, he left a will in which he left his house to his favourite nephew and the money in his bank accounts to be divided amongst his […]

Paulina has been working in one of the busiest branches of a large German supermarket for 8 years. She was employed as a retail assistant. In March 2018 Paulina was asked to restock the milk fridges. She had to push a large, 1.8m high, trolley full of milk cartons from the back to the fridge […]

Marek has suffered from a severe nut allergy all his life. His family never ordered takeaway food just in case it contained nuts. This changed during the lockdown in April and May of 2020. Marek’s family decided to order food from a local takeaway. On the phone, they clearly informed the restaurant of Marek’s allergies […]

Piotr had worked for a supply company for 3 years. The hours were long, the work was hard and the pay was ok. Piotr didn’t mind the hard work or the long hours. It was wet, windy, and cold when Piotr arrived with his lorry in the unloading bay in Galway City centre at 6am. […]

Andrius worked as a mechanic for a small Irish transport company since 2003. He went back to Lithuania during the recession in 2006 and then came back to working at this company in 2011. He was a mechanic who serviced large delivery trucks. The company has grown since 2011. At the start they only had […]

Mariusz has been working as a mechanic in a meat factory since he moved to Ireland in 2007. In August 2019 he was sent to one of the factories to repair a rotary packing machine which broke after one of the employees dropped a lump of meat inside. In order to repair it, Mariusz had […]

A widow made a Will leaving a house and bank accounts to the eldest son and nothing to the younger son. The younger son, who was effectively disinherited, took proceedings on the basis that his mother had failed in her moral obligation to him to make just and prudent provision for him and applied to […]