This afternoon.
Falsk, Strokestown, County Roscommon
The scene of a forced, violent eviction last December of the McGann family – two elderly brothers and sister – and the repossession of a farmhouse by security guards working on behalf of US vulture Cabot, which purchased the loan from KBC Bank.
Via RTÉ:
More than a dozen people have gathered inside the gates of a house in Co Roscommon in support of a family at the centre of a repossession row.
The McGann family had been given until midday to vacate the house at Falsk near Strokestown.
The house has been at the centre of a long running legal battle between the family and KBC bank.
People gather in support of McGann family at Falsk in Co Roscommon (Shannonside)
Supporters inside Roscommon property at centre of repossession row (RTÉ)
Previously: Cause And Effect
Pic: ShannonsideFM
They’re still in that house??
What a fuppin joke, I feel like a plank now for paying my mortgage when they have been living there without making a payment since ’04 – turf them out on their ear. If a buyer can’t be found, the bank should bulldoze the house into the ground as a matter of principle.
“Never live like Roscommon people
Never do what Roscommon people do
Never fail like Roscommon people
Never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance and drink and screw
Because there’s nothing else to do”
then dance and drink and screw …your first cousin
I thought only dubs screw their cousins?
I was just listening to the William Shatner cover today – it’s a doozy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0
There’s a fan-made clip of that which is some craic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3UfxyIdgs
this is class
This is one of the reasons you are paying a higher interest rate on your mortgage in Ireland than in other EU countries. Enjoy.
Enough with the “elderly” bull. The older 2 are barely pension age and the other 2 are in their 50s. Neither qualifies as elderly and they’re just cheap scroungers thinking they’re entitled to a free house because of advice from con artists like the Common Law Information Centre (Freeman on the land bolleaux and all that)
All is not black and white, debtor is carer for the others, Bank didn’t move until the mother died so she must have left the house to the son with the debts, if not the others have two-thirds of the house and couldn’t have any bank debt,if they have someone in KBC will be looking at some serious exploitation charges
Oh for crying out loud, they’re not exactly living in the lap of luxury. They need a roof over their heads. Throw them out to go where? A hotel room?
All of us need a roof over our heads, and we pay for it. This shower aren’t paying and haven’t paid for a long, long time. There’s no point in them going to a hotel because they probably won’t pay for that either.
There’s a difference between can’t pay and won’t pay. It’s beyond your realm of comprehension Dosy Chainsaw.
Aww, poor angry, impotent, little Wonwon. Canvassing in Fingal going badly for you?
has that other brother in strokestown not already got a house?
Pay your debts. But we have no money? But you earned so much money that you could not pay a 6 figure sum in VAT. Oh, but it is okay, the taxpayer will pick that up. Those who pay taxes, Not us, poor us.