A bank is entitled to repossess a man’s home in county Louth, the High Court has ruled.

A financial fund affiliated to US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs is entitled to an order for the possession of a property in Galway, the High Court has ruled.

A businessman and his wife, who owe more than €1m in mortgage arrears, have lost their High Court appeal against a possession order for their €2m south Dublin family home.

A man has lost his High Court appeal over an order for possession of his family home in west Dublin.

Two brothers, one of whom tragically since became blind, have lost the €650,000 home they bought together in 2009 after debt on their joint mortgage spiralled to just under €1m.

A judge has warned a man who continues to live in his re-possessed home that he may face prison if he does not vacate the property in the next seven days.

A housing charity has said it has helped 19 families faced with repossession orders remain in their homes over the past 12 months.

An Offaly TD has told KBC Bank that nobody wants to go back to the days of the Black and Tans over home evictions.

Gardaí in Co Roscommon are to interview up to eight security guards today who were attacked after an incident at a repossessed home near the town of Strokestown in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A High Court judge has referred a case where a bank-appointed receiver obtained orders giving them vacant possession of a property that had been occupied by a couple and their two year old child to the Law Society of Ireland for investigation.

A leading economist says Permanent TSB's proposal to sell mortgages to a vulture fund will not lead to wide-scale repossessions.

There is not enough social housing to allow for “widespread repossessions” and the new mortgage-to-rent scheme offers the best way of tackling the huge backlog in mortgage arrears, Davy Stockbrokers has said.

A Dublin couple, who reneged on their mortgage repayments just under four years ago, lost their upmarket Castleknock home to “the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland” yesterday.

The Independent Alliance say the Keeping People in Their Homes Bill 2017 provides greater protection to homeowners facing repossession.

Banks are committing to spending up to €1bn in “putting people out of family homes”, it has been claimed.

A mother of five “sports-mad” boys said that she does not know how she will tell them that they are going to lose their home.

A mother and daughter face losing their home, valued at €55,000, after the High Court upheld objections by a financial services firm to her proposed personal insolvency arrangement (PIA).

David Hall, has announced that he has established a new organisation called I Care Housing.

Gardaí in Limerick have begun an investigation into last Friday’s takeover by protesters of a court at which house repossession cases were being heard.

Banks are seizing more than three homes every day across Ireland, latest figures reveal.

The rate at which homes are being repossessed has increased by more than 500% since last year.

AIB says half of its customers whose homes are about to be seized in the courts are able to enter a new payment process and avoid repossession.

Our former Riches to Rags columnist was served with a repossession order in recent days, despite establishing a new business, dealing with arrears and paying the mortgage in full again.

Thousands of people drowning in “unsustainable” mortgage debt could have their properties bought by the State and turned into local authority units in a bid to help them stay in their homes, under a proposal put to Department of Finance officials today.  

BY any yardstick, the High Court verdict in favour of a Roscommon couple pursued for €1.4m in accrued interest on their £40,000 mortgage is a victory for common sense. If ever a case deserved to be struck out, this was it. And the decision of Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy to so do is sure to win wide acclaim.