Author: Eve Earley

Thousands call for return of Edmund Honohan to debt cases

Above is today’s Irish Times headline which references a gathering of self-proclaimed actionists from the four corners of Ireland. Filmed outside the High Court on February 4th 2019 when a letter was delivered to the Irish High Courts seeking the reversal of the obscene decision to remove debt-related cases from the Master of the High Court, […]

Using the law to help keep people in their homes – Edmund Honohan

Using the law to help keep people in their homes… The Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018 has been written by Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan, with the aim of enacting government policy in such a way as to keep people in their homes. Introduced in the Dáil last July, the bill highlights […]

Eviction is still a dirty word in Ireland – Senator David Norris

Eviction is still a dirty word in Ireland… “In June 2018 I proposed a bill in the Senate ‘The National Housing Agency Bill’, prepared in large part by Ed Honohan, Master of the High Court, at the behest of a group of people concerned about the fate of those citizens with distressed mortgages. An updated […]

Raise the tide, don’t sink the boats – Robert Hockett

Raise the tide, don’t sink the boats Ireland’s foreclosure crisis is a crisis of justice and a crisis of efficiency – not to say a crisis of mercy.   Ireland’s is a crisis of justice because most people are faced with foreclosure through no fault of their own. The exorbitant prices of their homes, and hence […]

Vulture Funds have green light to ‘solve’ the mortgage crisis – Brian Reilly

MORTGAGE RESCUE – NO COST TO THE TAXPAYER WHETHER you are a “performing” borrower or a “non-performing” borrower and in arrears, the sale of your loan and mortgage to a Vulture Fund represents an alarming development. Even though it is stated Government policy to “keep families in their home”s the self-same Government’s actions are of […]