Woman fears bankruptcy over €57k debt to council

A woman yesterday told a court that she would have to declare herself bankrupt over a €57,000 debt she allegedly owes Fingal County Council.

In the Circuit Civil Court, Judge Jacqueline Linnane heard that Anne Marie Fitzgerald had bought the house she had been renting at Brega, Hamlet Lane, Co Dublin, from the Fingal council.

Mema Byrne, counsel for the local authority, said Ms Fitzgerald had borrowed just under €136,000 from Fingal County Council to buy her home under a tenants purchase scheme.