Group prevents sheriff from entering man’s apartment

A man who says he has “substantial arrears” on a €220,000 mortgage he took out six years ago yesterday remained in his home after the sheriff for Louth was prevented from entering the apartment.

Eugene Dooley, 35, a quantity surveyor, said he took out a 30-year mortgage on the property on Chapel St, Dundalk, with Permanent TSB.

After the sheriff, Mairead Ahern, left yesterday, he said he had an appointment to discuss his mortgage situation with the bank this month and that he would suggest keeping up his repayments but at a lower amount than at the start of the mortgage term.