A teacher has fought off attempts by a sub-prime lender to render herself and her two sons homeless.

A LEGAL challenge to the entitlement of Start Mortgages Ltd to issue mortgages here has major implications for Start’s €1 billion housing loans and for the legal position of other lenders, the Central Bank has told the Commercial Court.

AN unemployed construction worker has brought a High Court challenge aimed at stopping a mortgage provider from taking possession of what has been his family’s home for more than three centuries.

A MARRIED father-of-two has told the High Court of his hopes for part-time work this Christmas as he struggles to pay a €250,000 mortgage on the family home.

NINE repossession orders were granted at the High Court as the mounting effects of the credit crisis were starkly illustrated by the number of cases of people unable to meet their mortgage payments.