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Stepfather settles long-running nursing home dispute with bereaved siblings

Date
2025-12-18

Stage
Hearing Or Decision

Summary

A long-running dispute between a stepfather and three bereaved siblings over the operation and ownership of a Co Meath nursing home has finally settled "in principle" at the High Court. In October of last year, nursing home co-owner Jim Cahill was judged to have left his bereaved step-children alone in the family home before he "cut them off from all income" and was ordered to pay them €410,000 in damages and legal fees. Their mother, Brigid Seepersad, died in a road traffic incident while on holiday in 2008, days after she and Mr Cahill divorced. Ms Justice Eileen Roberts said the now-adult Tara, Karl and Desmond Seepersad had, for some years, been without income due under a 2009-2010 settlement agreement with their estranged stepfather, Jim (John James) Cahill. At the High Court today, in finalising that order, Ms Justice Roberts heard from Thomas P Conlan SC, for Mr Cahill, that the matter had "settled in principle" between the parties.