Monthly Archives: March 2012

Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan has been thinking about them. And not in a nice way, either.

Banks will have to be more aggressive in repossessing properties in the buy-to let sector, the Governor of the Central Bank Patrick Honohan warned while ruling out a widespread debt forgiveness programme as unaffordable.

Speaking this evening in Limerick, Mr Honohan stressed that although public policy should aim to avoid the repossession of family homes “where this is unnecessary” when it came to investment properties “there are many circumstances in which there is less reason to be inhibited about repossessing”.

Call For ‘Aggressive’ Action On Buy-To-Let Repossessions (Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAeFDCRdWNQ

At Cheltenham yesterday:

[Jockey and royal ex-boyfriend] Richard Johnson [riding Wishfull Thinking during The Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase] falls at the first post taking out a photographer at the process

 

Somebody (possibly Irish) then shouts “Well done”

(Horse, jockey and photographer left moderately unscathed)

Sisters of missing Achill man James Grealis, from left, Caroline O’Connell, Helen Grealis and Bernadette Spinalley. James disappeared after leaving a guesthouse in  the Dutch town of Breda to look for work on October 23, 2008. The Grealis sisters handed in a letter to Ambassador Robert Engels at the Netherlands embassy, Merrion Road, Dublin, telling him that they are not satisfied with the progress of the investigation thus far.

Protest Over Missing irishman, Kitty Holland, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)