Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said the courts were right to refuse to accept a sworn statement with the “fanciful” occupation listed.

The Central Office of the High Court refused to accept the affidavit on the basis that it did not comply with the rules of the court.

The litigant had sought to challenge a decision by the Residential Tenancies Board to fix a market rent for his tenancy.

According to The Irish Times, Mr Justice Humphreys said: “If such a mode of description were permitted, one could not stop the next deponent describing themselves in the opening of an affidavit as a ‘Guardian reader’ or the one after that as a ‘keen golfer’ and so on.”