"Land League" blocking repossession of Brian O'Donnell's home

This nonsense affects all of us. Foreign players are avoiding Ireland because of the uncertainty regarding security / repossession. That's allowing the current oligopoly to rape and pillage with ridiculous SVRs.
 
demoivre said:
Strange that O'Donnell didn't structure his business affairs in such a way that , should everything go pear shaped, he could legally hang on to the family home. I know several people who have done just that.
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Brendan Burgess said:
If you are borrowing millions, the banks generally want security. If you have a home worth €30m, they want that.
Brendan
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Precisely which is why O Donnell should have done the borrowing and left the house with the missus !
 
A good piece by Micheal Clifford in yesterday's Examiner

Irony looms large in the siege of Gorse Hill

At the height of the bubble, big shots in O’Donnell’s league used to enjoy flying a Tricolour on buildings they acquired in London, in a clownish gesture of reverse conquest.

Then, when the bubble burst, many, such as O’Donnell, fled to Old Blighty in a bid to avoid this jurisdiction’s more odious bankruptcy laws.

Back home, at the other end of the political spectrum, we have experienced socialists railing against a property tax, a tariff that has been a basic tenet of socialism since Karl Marx was in short trousers.

Then, this week, we had the marrying of an organisation that claims lineage to Michael Davitt, with a property owner who might have had more in common with Captain Boycott.

The so-called Land League’s defence of Gorse Hill was heavy with irony. As noted in the High Court on Monday, O’Donnell was “ultimately a member of the landlord class”. What would Davitt have made of it all?
 
Vincent Browne was well worth watching.

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He went into Gorse Hill and walked around the grounds.

Then he had Gerry Beades on the show.

Gerry described Gorse Hill as "bog standard" and the interior as"simplistic".

The shocking thing is how much this is costing the taxpayer.

Brendan
 
This situation is absolutely crazy.

Whatever sympathy you would have for a genuine hardship case, where a family with no income are being evicted from their modest family home for being unable to pay their Homeloan, this case is entirely different.

This house is by no means necessary, to provide a family home. It is clearly a trophy asset and it's value could help reduce or settle the debt that appears legally due (based on previous court decisions, in this long running dispute).

Personally, if I were the judge, I'd now be offering the O'Donnells accomodation in our prison system, if they really want somewhere to live.
 
peteb said:
I wonder will Mr O'Donnell be representing his new buddy!
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O'Donnell said yesterday in Court he knew nothing about Beades and friends, that they didn't speak for him. The Irish Courts system is being made a mockery of
 
Great radio on the Pat Kenny show now....the O'Donnell children and Jerry Beades. Oh, how the other half think!!!
 
Why are these peo
Delboy said:
Great radio on the Pat Kenny show now....the O'Donnell children and Jerry Beades. Oh, how the other half think!!!
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Why are these people getting so much air time, it makes me feel ill. There are ordinary people out there devastated to be losing their homes and they having to listen to these so called privileged people crying into their china teacups because there are going to lose one of their trophy homes, how maddening is that.

If it has already been determined that the BOI owns the house in Gorse Hill why don't they just send in the bailiffs and reprocess it, what's all this continuing in and out of court caper about??
 
The family seem disheartened by all the media attention they are receiving. Yeah right! When I read the parents were not even living in Ireland and daddy was working my heart sank that bit further for the everyday Joe Soap that is struggling out there.

That land league crowd should be ashamed of themselves.
 
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Just watched the Vincent Borwne episode. This really is comical stuff. You'd think it was something out of Father Ted.
 
The Land League got the Gift Grub treatment yesterday

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