The dark side of the boom for homeowners

Homeowners await news of the prospect of keeping their homes, says Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

Next Monday at 6pm, they will file into the Oakwood Arms Hotel in Shannon to find out what prospects they have of keeping their homes.

Many of these home-owners are still absorbing the shock they received just prior to Christmas when they were told that between them they had to come up with €2.25m or face the possibility that their homes would have to be vacated as fire