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[1]������� The late Charles Haughey, formerly Taoiseach, when describing an unusual set of circumstances coined the acronym GUBU; standing for Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented.� That acronym could apply to this particular case.

[2]������� It is in short the most unusual, by some distance, ancillary relief application that I have heard since I started hearing such applications in 1996.�

[3]������� Amongst the more singular features of the case, and not in any particular order, are as follows:-

1.���� The husband alleged that the parties had been in a brief relationship for some months, eighteen years prior to the marriage, that some considerable time later they had got together again, been married, lived together for a short period of months after which time they separated and divorced.�

2.���� It was the case of the wife that they had been in a committed, cohabiting, relationship throughout that time amounting to a period in excess of twenty years.�