Daughter’s cries ring through court as father pleads to stop home repossession

THE increasingly loud cries of a young infant were allowed to ring in Court 16 of the Four Courts yesterday as a judge listened to pleadings by the baby’s father to prevent the family home in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, from being repossessed.

Conscious of the sensitivity of the couple’s circumstances, Judge Elizabeth Dunne eventually had to kindly suggest to the baby’s mother, who was rocking the pram back and forth in a bid to calm her daughter, that she might want to leave the room in order to speed up proceedings.

The woman agreed to wait outside as her husband explained his efforts to keep up repayments on their mortgage from Stepstone Mortgage Funding.