Judge criticises Master of High Court for dismissing bank's repossession case before it reached court

The Master of the High Court, who last week had debt cases removed from his workload, has been criticised by a judge over his decision to dismiss a bank's application to repossess a property.

Mr Justice Garrett Simons said "it beggars belief" that the Master, Edmund Honohan, continued to make orders striking out special summonses such as the one brought by Permanent TSB against Geoffrey Carr over the repossession of land and a house at Carney Commons, Carney, Co Tipperary.