Couple Ordered to Demolish House - any update?

I've been thinking about this house....I've seen it from the beach and it looks ridiculous.

Personally I would presume the Sutton house due to location the council would be a lot stricter as they definitely don't want a "free for all" precedent set along the coast.

I could be completely proven wrong though.

I'm surprised this house was demolished tbh, I think it's the right decision but I thought the Irish "shut leave them be, they're hurting no one" attitude would win out. Glad to be proven wrong.

My thoughts are with the unfortunate tenants who will be evicted from another of the Murray's properties now so they have somewhere to live

seems fairly clear to me.

the poster is implying that the Murray’s have a property somewhere that was rented out. The Murray’s can now evict that renter, as the Murray’s are now homeless. The Murray’s can then move into the formerly rented house.

The poster is expressing sympathy for the person who is currently renting, as they will be made homeless by the arrogance of the Murray’s.

It’s not that complicated

That would make sense if it were true. I haven't seen anything in this thread or in media reports of the Murray's owning another house. We won't mention tenants rights as it has nothing to do with this thread.

Which is why I used the word implied.

Having said that, it would be fairly logical to assume that at one stage the Murray’s were quite wealthy, at least in terms of assets given the demolished house in Meath cannot have had a mortgage on it.

Given that assumption, it would be logical to further assume that at least one of the assets they may have had in the past was/is another property.

We are not talking huge leaps of faith and logic here. Just an assumption. And a fairly obvious one too.

I'd buy a ticket for a euro, and if I won I'd raffle it off for 2 euro a ticket 😀 @knucklehead6

But let's be more realistic, most house raffles are 50 euro a ticket, would you pay that for a ticket?, and if you honestly say you would, can you confirm you have entered every house raffle competition in Ireland to date?

Having said that, it would be fairly logical to assume that at one stage the Murray’s were quite wealthy, at least in terms of assets given the demolished house in Meath cannot have had a mortgage on it.

They likely don't have a mortgage, but to that they couldn't is simply not true.

You can bet no doubt this couple were encouraged for years to fight this by the legal eagles, who are the only real winners in this fiasco!! Gravy train central!!!

Yup. It was the peak of money for nothing, questions later.

Has there been a mortgage, you'd expect it to be mentioned somewhere - even if paid off by now.
But the claim was impossible to get one, which simply was though back in the wild tiger days

Do you mean they should have been allowed to keep the house if they paid the council €300,000 in addition to paying all the other debts (especially legal fees) for which they are liable OR do you mean that €300,000 would settle all their debts to the council?

The recent video suggests absolutely nothing significant was knocked previously.

 "was typical Celtic Tiger,” Ms Murray said. “We were typical Celtic Tiger people doing what we did. Everyone was borrowing from the banks and building massive houses, except we were spending our own money on it.”

From the Indo, pretty clear there was no mortgage on it, and I would still hold that they wouldn't have got one without PP if they had applied, even at the height of the madness.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and yes the couple were wrong from the start but spending probably another 500K plus to knock a prefectly good house which surely could have been used by the council for a useful purpose seems wrong in my opinion. Yes the council have spent huge money defending all the court appeals etc. and the court directed MCC to demolish the house but at what cost? Its not like a house in good condition could not be used for various social services currently under massive pressure. They're no winners in this situation the law needs to be upheld but the medicine applied by the court and MCC seems to be very severe and not looking at alternative options.