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Pensioners evicted from their home today!!

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  • #452
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    story breaks this morning and eamon gilmore says at lunchtime that he will meet the couple

    priory hall story breaks months ago and residents only meet enda kenny yesterday

    looking after the rich again it seems


  • #453
    tiny_penguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭tiny_penguin


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Had the banks been prudent, they wouldn't have handed the money over in the first place. They should have known more than anyone that the bubble wasn't going to go on forever. They were blindly gambling with their customers' money.

    Both sides have a responsibility here. But he still has to take responsibility for his own greed. He took a gamble with his own money and lost and now he has to face the consequences of that. Why should he be able to stay in his house that is currently way beyond his means? Because the banks are corrupt? Are we all queuing up for 2m euro houses? Nobody wants to see anyone homeless, but the bailiffs did not just arrive at his door out of the blue, he has had 2 years to sort himself out and he chose not to.


  • #454
    fionny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭fionny


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    Why is he scum? So everyone who bought a property and who have lost their job and are unable to pay back their mortgage are scum?

    No everyone who spent millions on lots of house took in the cash and refused to pay a penny or even discuss the situation for 2 years is a chancer scumbag no better the the tools who led this country into the ground.


  • #455
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    story breaks this morning and eamob gilmore says at lunchtime that he will meet the couple

    priory hall story breaks months ago and residents only meet enda kenny yesterday

    looking after the rich again it seems

    don't be under any illusion that gilmore or his fat cats are in government for the people. they are in there to get their fat pensions - once they are secure they will waddle off and live the lifestyle they always wanted, not giving a toss about the people they are supposed to represent.

    as a side note, gilmore, every time I see him seems to be more and more bloated - he is beginning to resemble a giant chipmunk


  • #456
    zom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    fionny wrote: »
    I wouldnt be surprised if there is a PR agency involved here somewhere.

    They are very smart business people and they can trick most if Irish. If anyone can just take a look into internet will easily find how big money and connections they have. But that's the way most of private fortunes were build:

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/couple-operated-three-irland-haus-brand-shops-in-germanys-most-exclusive-holidaying-resorts-3085603.html


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  • #457
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Anyone got a link for Gilmore agreeing to meet with them? Embarrassing if true. It'll backfire on him once it emerges that most of the sympathy for this couple is media manufactured, and the facts come out about them.


  • #458
    haminka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭haminka


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Had the banks been prudent, they wouldn't have handed the money over in the first place. They should have known more than anyone that the bubble wasn't going to go on forever. They were blindly gambling with their customers' money.

    Banks are people and this spending like wild mentality was rampant through all levels of society. Of course, they were lending. Their bonuses depended on it. They were gambling, customers were gambling.


  • #459
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    Anglo are a bunch of gangsters who are majorily responsible for our financial situation.

    The greed of bankers was a factor in all of this. Equally, so too was the greed of borrowers.

    This guy and others like him demonstrate a stunning lack of awarenness in the contribution of their own actions in bringing about the disaster that has been visited in the people of this country.


  • #460
    zom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    Why is he scum? So everyone who bought a property and who have lost their job and are unable to pay back their mortgage are scum?

    This gyu has more money than most of people on boards.ie. He just want more, so he push us to pay for his house...


  • #461
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    ch750536 wrote: »
    He was an accountant ffs.

    So am I, and I'm probably one of the few accountants who sat back with a bag of popcorn watching a few other financial geniuses make complete arseholes of themselves, whilst bragging about their international property portfolios. At least two of them went down for €80 million apiece when everything fell apart, and are now keeping a low profile.


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  • #462
    fionny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭fionny


    Dave! wrote: »
    Anyone got a link for Gilmore agreeing to meet with them? Embarrassing if true. It'll backfire on him once it emerges that most of the sympathy for this couple is media manufactured, and the facts come out about them.

    Its being broadcast on national news on todayfm.


  • #463
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,239 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    story breaks this morning and eamon gilmore says at lunchtime that he will meet the couple

    priory hall story breaks months ago and residents only meet enda kenny yesterday

    looking after the rich again it seems

    Kenny didn't even meet with them afaik. They went to an industrial estate where he was pretending to have something to do with some new jobs being created and approached him afterwards.


  • #464
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    Dave! wrote: »
    Anyone got a link for Gilmore agreeing to meet with them? Embarrassing if true. It'll backfire on him once it emerges that most of the sympathy for this couple is media manufactured, and the facts come out about them.

    I hope Gilmore falls flat on his gee over this.

    He's a "see which way the political wind is blowing and follow it" spineless sh*te-hawk.


  • #465
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/tanaiste-to-contact-evicted-couple-548164.html


  • #466
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    "Minister Gilmore said that he will make contact with the couple to see what can be done."

    If he helps them out, there will be murder!


  • #467
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    I can't understand how anyone would have sympathy for them ?
    It's not their house ? The bank owns the house (meaning the tax payer).

    They were living Rent free for two years. Are you and I supposed to pick up the bill for them while they continue to live in the house ?

    Talk about complete nonsense.

    Give them a nice house in a ghost estate that they can rent from the Government.


  • #468
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    smash wrote: »
    "Minister Gilmore said that he will make contact with the couple to see what can be done."

    If he helps them out, there will be murder!

    it's like the twilight zone. . .i'm just so puzzled at the reactions. . .


  • #469
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    smash wrote: »
    "Minister Gilmore said that he will make contact with the couple to see what can be done."

    If he helps them out, there will be murder!

    He cannot help them out, he is just saying what he thinks is expected of him. He will meet them, listen and walk away laughing at them.


  • #470
    Finnbar01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    lazygal wrote: »
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/tanaiste-to-contact-evicted-couple-548164.html

    I hope he lets us all know exactly what was conversed at the meeting.


  • #471
    Leftist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Leftist


    2 years to get their act together.

    Took a risk, now it's time to pay back.

    Doesn't matter about the self righteous wailing on camera.

    Pay your debts.

    There was some woman on newstalk today bleating on about straw men 'probably' happy because they were entrepreneurs. No doubt a FF'er.


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  • #472
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Dave! wrote: »
    Anyone got a link for Gilmore agreeing to meet with them? Embarrassing if true. It'll backfire on him once it emerges that most of the sympathy for this couple is media manufactured, and the facts come out about them.

    That has to be a wind up:mad:


  • #473
    irishconvert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭irishconvert


    As long as not one single head has rolled, no bankers and politicians are in jail because of this massive fraud on the Irish people, I will not side against anybody being evicted from their home by the very same people who committed the fraud.


  • #474
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    fionny wrote: »
    I wouldnt be surprised if there is a PR agency involved here somewhere.

    Hmmm... The Indo splashed on it today, with a half page more on p3. Their reporter and photographer were there before the eviction began, according to the reporter herself. The tone of the coverage is very emotive, "women crying", "silver haired pensioners", "putting two people out of their home","gardai looked on, unable to intervene".

    It only rates p4 briefs in the Irish Times and the Examiner...


  • #475
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    The media are only interseted because this story is getting so much coverage.

    The moment everyone realises that these gob****es got what was coming to them and interest wanes, there will be no more media circus.

    The media couldn't give a sh*t about this couple... but as long as people are tuning in to radio stations and buying newpapers on them, they will keep getting publicity.

    Such a total farce. I bet the couple seriously think the media big guns care about them. It will only serve to fuel their egos more....


  • #476
    Leftist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Leftist


    irishconvert wrote: »
    As long as not one single head has rolled, no bankers and politicians are in jail because of this massive fraud on the Irish people, I will not side against anybody being evicted from their home by the very same people who committed the fraud.

    But isn't that just ignoring rationale out of spite?

    These people took out a loan they can't afford. It doesn't matter who the took it from.

    it's all abit shylock imo. It's all the lenders fault. Nothing this poor millionaire cuold have done about taking loans he can't pay back.


  • #477
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,285 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I wonder if they paid the household tax


  • #478
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    What other news is be unveiled today that these actors are bumping off the front pages?


  • #479
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    mathie wrote: »
    What other news is be unveiled today that these actors are bumping off the front pages?

    Another obscure tax, Nose-hair Tax I believe is today's effort.


  • #480
    Faolchu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Faolchu


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I wonder if they paid the household tax
    well if they paid on that one its money wasted now
    :D


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  • #481
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Another obscure tax, Nose-hair Tax I believe is today's effort.
    Its actually a 'non home ownership' tax. A tax levied on those who rent or are over 18 but live at home and so are not contributing via house hold charge, water rates, septic tank rates etc.


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