Man continues living in home despite no payment since 2009

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Man continues to live in Dublin home despite €2.3m debt, last repayment in 2009 | BreakingNews.ie

Since having obtained a repossession order against the couple in 2011, multiple applications as high as the Court of Appeal had been made, frustrating the bank in recovering the property.
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Mr O’Connell, [the bank's barrister], told the court that since having obtained a repossession order against the couple in 2011, Mr Farrington had made multiple applications as high as the Court of Appeal, frustrating the bank in recovering the property.
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Judge Shannon adjourned the bank’s application to November 26th and said he would allow Mr Farrington to file what submissions he may wish to make. He told Farrington the matter would proceed to a finality on that date.
 
As I make my way through life, I have come to the conclusion that the enforcement provisions in legislation in Ireland seem to presume that everybody is a saint, and do not operate on the basis that many people do not respect the law.
 
Protocol said:
As I make my way through life, I have come to the conclusion that the enforcement provisions in legislation in Ireland seem to presume that everybody is a saint, and do not operate on the basis that many people do not respect the law.
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In 2017, the highest court in the land ordered that an illegally built house near Navan should be demolished.

It's still there.

In 2020 the couple who built the house agreed with Meath County Council that they would leave the house, which would then be demolished, in two year's time.

They're still there.

They've been living in it for 18 years now! I suspect that, in 50 years' time, their grandchildren will be living in it.
 
when I did leaving Cert geography a teacher said “Ireland is a relatively young republic, our laws are based on UK laws but we apply them as though we are teenagers, defying them, bending them, pushing them and pretending they are not there to suit ourselves”
I think it was in context of environment governance but it could apply to all our processes- don’t name or hold anyone accountable for wrongdoing because we could be caught offside ourselves at some point. Not sure if I want to agree with it but it still stuck with me.
 
If he made all these appeals against enforcement of the eviction for all those years, did he have the money to pay for all the court fees he has accrued, surely those alone must come to a substantial sum of money ?
 
He is not using a solicitor in this stage, so he is probably representing himself.

Unusually, he had a barrister but I think she was denied a right of audience.

Brendan
 

O’Donnells of Gorse Hill behind €1.85m Killiney house purchase

Family lost Vico Road home after long battle with Bank of Ireland over debts of €71m
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Reminds me of another similar case back in 2018 of gorse Hill, killiney where bank of ireland were pursuing Brian o donnell for 71 million in debt. They eventually got possession of the house which was sold. However o donnell was declared bankrupt in 2017, but was still able to fork out 2 million for another house close by. How was that possible, presumably if you are declared bankrupt all your assets are seized?
 

The O'Donnells are still fighting! https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-independent/20240914/281646785522479
 
All the more reason to stay living there, free of charge!

You may recall a former RTE personality and her restauranteur husband were in a similar situation, in a relatively nice house in Clontarf, Dublin 3.

Protocol said:
As I make my way through life, I have come to the conclusion that the enforcement provisions in legislation in Ireland seem to presume that everybody is a saint, and do not operate on the basis that many people do not respect the law.
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It's a simple rule....

In Ireland, crime does actually pay !

Just look at the endless nonsense that goes on in our courts, be it in relation to people not paying their homeloans, repeat (criminal) offenders not being jailed etc. etc.

Our Government is led by the party for law and order, a party that does nothing to tighten up legislation, to tackle these long running and very well known problems.
 
The problem with lack of enforcement of reasonable laws is that a vocal minority think the solution is far more severe laws. The failure of the moderate centre to enforce, regulate and run is oxygen to the far left and the far right.
 
Brendan Burgess said:
He is not using a solicitor in this stage, so he is probably representing himself.

Unusually, he had a barrister but I think she was denied a right of audience.

Brendan
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A barrister likened the treatment by her professional body of two complaints against her to “being treated like a Jew in Nazi Germany”, the High Court heard.

Barrister claimed Bar Council treated her 'like Jew in Nazi Germany', High Court hears

A barrister likened the treatment by her professional body of two complaints against her to “being treated like a Jew in Nazi Germany”, the High Court heard.
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Wow - and I had assumed that one western family had the market for bonkers legal shenanigans cornered!
 
She has been found to have taken two frivolous and vexatious cases so far so a solicitor is trying to have her barred from taking any more cases

Controversial barrister Eugenie Houston claims An Post employee forged her signature

A barrister twice found to have engaged in “frivolous and vexatious” litigation against other legal professionals has now claimed her signature was forged to purportedly show she had been served with a legal application to bar her from suing again.
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A barrister twice found to have engaged in “frivolous and vexatious” litigation against other legal professionals has now claimed her signature was forged to purportedly show she had been served with a legal application to bar her from suing again.
Eugenie Houston made the claim in the High Court, where she is set to face an application for an Isaac Wunder order.
This is an order restricting a vexatious litigant from instituting further legal proceedings without first getting permission from a court. The order is named after a plaintiff who repeatedly took groundless lawsuits in the 1960s.
The High Court has ruled twice this year that lawsuits taken by Ms Houston were frivolous and vexatious.
In the first ruling, it dismissed a defamation action she took against High Court judge Leonie Reynolds. In the second case, the court dismissed proceedings against solicitor Wendy Doyle, finding they appeared to have been taken to harass and intimidate Ms Doyle.
 
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