O'Donnells of Gorse Hill rehomed

Chiorino · 09-02-2018 11:24AM #1

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/o-donnells-of-gorse-hill-behind-1-85m-killiney-house-purchase-1.3385749

Only out of bankruptcy since August 2017 and they can set themselves up in this nice little (bog standard) pile a month later. I must be with the wrong bank altogether because I can't get a €500 credit card because I was late with two mortgage payments in 2014.

Guy:Incognito · 09-02-2018 11:27AM

Are these the ones that had those land league and Freeman idiots backing them? Have they or their supporters anything to say about this poor downtrodden family now? Or are we all supposed to forget their fcukarsery?

WoollyRedHat · 09-02-2018 11:38AM

I read that the amount of people defaulting ( purposefully stopped paying their mortgage) jumped massively from 2011 because of some ruling that made it illegal for banks to evict or something. Link here.

People like this benefit, and then the MC pay for them through higher mortgage rates. When can we start to eat the rich? Or our idiot rulers, whichever is plumper.

whisky_galore · 09-02-2018 11:45AM

This country only looks after the rich and the shiftless in society.

BillyBobBS · 09-02-2018 11:51AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

This country only looks after the rich and the shiftless in society.

Yet people keep voting for the same political organisations who continue to maintain the status quo. You get the government you deserve.

Guy:Incognito · 09-02-2018 11:54AM

Which part of "the country" got them a new house or delayed them being ****ed out of the old one?

donegaLroad · 09-02-2018 12:20PM

but folks, you can't put a formula 1 racing car from 5th gear straight into 1st.

If people have become accustomed to a certain standard of living, then it would be a violation of human rights to have them live in a semi-detatched suburban Mr. Smith environment.

Hector Savage · 09-02-2018 12:40PM

It really is disgusting !!

What about the 71m they owe ???

I have been out of Ireland 13 years and don't think I'll ever be able to return - car insurance will cost about 5k for me because despite being 40, im classed as a new ****ing driver, experience driving in europe doesn't count apparently.

And I won't even start about property.

Fr_Dougal · 09-02-2018 12:50PM

Great to see a good news story in AH. Fair play to them for getting back on their feet.

💣

yermandan · 09-02-2018 01:08PM

Thanks OP, I was looking for something to boil my piss this afternoon

DarTipp · 09-02-2018 01:17PM

no surprise they've land on their feet so quickly and maybe in a few years time their new home will be worth as much as their old one , I remember one of their daughters blaise I think giving plenty of stick to the judge at one of the court hearings

Odhinn · 09-02-2018 01:18PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Are these the ones that had those land league and Freeman idiots backing them? Have they or their supporters anything to say about this poor downtrodden family now? Or are we all supposed to forget their fcukarsery?

I think they're extinct now Father.

Widdershins · 09-02-2018 01:21PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I read that the amount of people defaulting ( purposefully stopped paying their mortgage) jumped massively from 2011 because of some ruling that made it illegal for banks to evict or something. Link here.

People like this benefit, and then the MC pay for them through higher mortgage rates. When can we start to eat the rich? Or our idiot rulers, whichever is plumper.

I don't understand. I read the link but is this some situation that existed in the past or is it currently that they can't evict people.?

They did evict the Dunnes didn't they?

RoboRat · 09-02-2018 01:23PM

FFS, they rack up tens of millions in debt and a few short years later can buy themselves another 7 digit mansion. I also heard about people defaulting on their mortgages when the ruling was passed to not evict defaulters. This country is a bloody joke and the fact that people get away with abusing systems that are put in place to protect the most at risk is scandalous.

I was living hand to mouth for a few years, I had to take a 35% paycut, working longer hours to keep my job but I never missed my payments. I ended up selling my house in late 2016 and lost the bones of €60k, not to mention about 5 years of my life.

I could have walked away but I was raised to understand that there are always consequences to decisions and to accept them, good or bad. I'm now turning 41, still trying to fudge the money together to build a family house and these snakes are waltzing into another Killiney mansion.

I really can't understand this country, seems if you are a good and honest citizen, you must endure scrotes who just take the piss and also foot the bill for them.

diomed · 09-02-2018 01:24PM

Nice to see they got back on their feet.

SEPT 23 1989 · 09-02-2018 01:24PM

fair play to them for getting the €1.85m together in 5 months with a slightly impaired credit rating

tretorn · 09-02-2018 01:25PM

They have been working on the house for months, they got a bargain, think they paid hundreds of thousands less than asking price.
Presume all the offspring have their own little pads in Killiney too.

Grayson · 09-02-2018 01:26PM

yermandan wrote: »

Thanks OP, I was looking for something to boil my piss this afternoon

Now you have something to blast them with.

Huexotzingo · 09-02-2018 01:27PM

Chiorino wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/o-donnells-of-gorse-hill-behind-1-85m-killiney-house-purchase-1.3385749

Only out of bankruptcy since August 2017 and they can set themselves up in this nice little (bog standard) pile a month later. I must be with the wrong bank altogether because I can't get a €500 credit card because I was late with two mortgage payments in 2014.

This is why people vote for Sinn Fein.

diomed · 09-02-2018 01:28PM

bouncebackability

diomed · 09-02-2018 01:30PM

Huexotzingo wrote: »

This is why people vote for Sinn Fein.

You might attract Francie to this thread, and then it will go on for years.

Chiorino · 09-02-2018 01:30PM

Huexotzingo wrote: »

This is why people vote for Sinn Fein.

It hasn't pushed me quite to this level yet.

VinLieger · 09-02-2018 01:32PM

Huexotzingo wrote: »

This is why people vote for Sinn Fein.

Its really not

ChikiChiki · 09-02-2018 01:39PM

RoboRat wrote: »

FFS, they rack up tens of millions in debt and a few short years later can buy themselves another 7 digit mansion. I also heard about people defaulting on their mortgages when the ruling was passed to not evict defaulters. This country is a bloody joke and the fact that people get away with abusing systems that are put in place to protect the most at risk is scandalous.

I was living hand to mouth for a few years, I had to take a 35% paycut, working longer hours to keep my job but I never missed my payments. I ended up selling my house in late 2016 and lost the bones of €60k, not to mention about 5 years of my life.

I could have walked away but I was raised to understand that there are always consequences to decisions and to accept them, good or bad. I'm now turning 41, still trying to fudge the money together to build a family house and these snakes are waltzing into another Killiney mansion.

I really can't understand this country, seems if you are a good and honest citizen, you must endure scrotes who just take the piss and also foot the bill for them.

We are a country that doesn't treat the people who make difficult sacrifices and contribute the most to society well. An example being the value we get from our taxes being absolutely appalling.

Sadly after the last 10 years I don't see any hope for real meaningful change.

09-02-2018 01:49PM

The money, or some of it, may be back but the public humiliation will last forever, and I'm not just talking about the ridiculous names they gave their children like Blaize and Blake.

I'd say they're still struggling with the reality of how few friends they really had when things got tough (relatively speaking, of course). Pretty ugly world at that level.

WoollyRedHat · 09-02-2018 02:42PM

Widdershins wrote: »

I don't understand. I read the link but is this some situation that existed in the past or is it currently that they can't evict people.?

They did evict the Dunnes didn't they?

Sorry my understanding is they eventually did, due to occupany or lack thereof of the property; although maybe somebody could correct me if I'm wrong. For them it was a different situation, to what the article is referring to, but point still stands that people abuse the system because of lenient; drawn out eviction battles which ends up costing everybody in the long run.

It's one thing for somebody to run into financial difficulties who wants to pay and tries to negiotate a deal with the banks if they fall behind repayments, and another situation entirely to baton down the hatches and refuse to engage, with the taxpayer left to pick up the pieces.

Widdershins · 09-02-2018 02:47PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Sorry my understanding is they eventually did, due to occupany or lack thereof of the property; although maybe somebody could correct me if I'm wrong.

Would be good if someone could. Not because I plan to default on a mortgage or anything but I know people in genuinely bog standard houses who do not take the pee and it might be a weight off their shoulders if this is true in 2018 as the're worried about repossession.

jmayo · 09-02-2018 02:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The money, or some of it, may be back but the public humiliation will last forever, and I'm not just talking about the ridiculous names they gave their children like Blaize and Blake.

I'd say they're still struggling with the reality of how few friends they really had when things got tough (relatively speaking, of course). Pretty ugly world at that level.

Nah they probably don't care as they have necks like jockeys bolloxs.
People like these don't really do shame.

Besides the crew they would probably hang out just care that they have the dosh and the trappings.
Also the same crew probably have their own skeletons knocking about.

I attended a function hosted by someone owing many million to NAMA.
He couldn't care less that everyone knew he was in NAMA and for someone that claimed near bankruptcy he still could pay for functions in very expensive country house hotels.

09-02-2018 02:51PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

It really is disgusting !!

What about the 71m they owe ???

I have been out of Ireland 13 years and don't think I'll ever be able to return - car insurance will cost about 5k for me because despite being 40, im classed as a new ****ing driver, experience driving in europe doesn't count apparently.

And I won't even start about property.

Bit of an exaggeration with the insurance cost I think.

But yeah, I found the sob stories on the Late Late entertaining back in the day. People with an income from the state of over €25-30k and they couldn't afford to pay anything off their mortgage for several years. But they could afford to keep 2 cars on the road with neither working and keeping things "normal" for the kids.

yermandan · 09-02-2018 02:52PM

RoboRat wrote: »

FFS, they rack up tens of millions in debt and a few short years later can buy themselves another 7 digit mansion. I also heard about people defaulting on their mortgages when the ruling was passed to not evict defaulters. This country is a bloody joke and the fact that people get away with abusing systems that are put in place to protect the most at risk is scandalous.

I was living hand to mouth for a few years, I had to take a 35% paycut, working longer hours to keep my job but I never missed my payments. I ended up selling my house in late 2016 and lost the bones of €60k, not to mention about 5 years of my life.

I could have walked away but I was raised to understand that there are always consequences to decisions and to accept them, good or bad. I'm now turning 41, still trying to fudge the money together to build a family house and these snakes are waltzing into another Killiney mansion.

I really can't understand this country, seems if you are a good and honest citizen, you must endure scrotes who just take the piss and also foot the bill for them.

Brilliant post. Bang on

Kat1170 · 09-02-2018 03:00PM

BillyBobBS wrote: »

Yet people keep voting for the same political organisations who continue to maintain the status quo. You get the government you deserve.

I see this sh1te every time this type of thread comes up. Who are these other wonderful political organisations you refer to ?? Our supposed savours just waiting in the wings for their chance ??

Can't be FF, FG, Labour or the Greens, they've all had their chances to £uck us over. Which of the remaining dregs do you suggest will lift us magically out of the mire. SF? Renua ? Shane Ross et al ??? Don't make me laugh.

We get the politicians we deserve ?? There isn't any choice in this country !!!!

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

O'Donnells of Gorse Hill rehomed

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