Father faces €50,000 arrears on mortgage

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.

The unemployed glazier is facing arrears of €50,000 on his four-bed Meath home and revealed how the financial burden had caused arguments between him and his wife.

Judge Elizabeth Dunne advised the man to appeal his mortgage relief payments as he was only receiving €204 a week from the state for the couple and their two children.