Man blockades home to stop his eviction over unpaid bank loans

A man has blockaded the entrance to his home in Co Limerick with 30 tonnes of baled silage to prevent a threatened eviction over unpaid bank loans.

Seamus Sherlock, 46, a separated father of five, said: “I had to place 40 big bales, each weighing about three quarters of a tonne, at the entrance to my home because they could come any hour of the day or night to evict me. I got word from the county registrar on Thursday that I was being evicted from my home without further notice.”

He said Royal Bank of Scotland had secured a court order against him over borrowings on his home and some land for “a sum of about €250,000”.