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# evictions - Friday 10 July, 2020
Housing minister says he wants to extend rent freeze and ban on evictions - but not indefinitely
The final decision will be made by Cabinet in the coming days.
# evictions - Thursday 9 July, 2020
Heritage Minister confirms Waterways Ireland will not remove barge homes from canal
Six boat owners had been served eviction notices and told their homes would be removed by crane if they did not move them.
# evictions - Wednesday 8 July, 2020
Plan to move people's barges off Dublin's Grand Canal stalled by heritage minister
Minister of State Malcolm Noonan said that he is hoping to establish a mediation process.
# evictions - Tuesday 7 July, 2020
People living in barges on Dublin's Grand Canal could be evicted from their homes this week
A crane is set to remove the houseboats tomorrow.
# evictions - Thursday 19 March, 2020
Rent freeze and temporary ban on evictions to be introduced during Covid-19 crisis
The emergency measures for renters were agreed at a Cabinet meeting today.
# evictions - Sunday 30 June, 2019
Majority of revenue on Airbnb comes from rentals which will be hit by new laws Exclusive
Data scraped from site shows widespread use of ‘domestic’ units as short-term lets.
# evictions - Wednesday 17 April, 2019
'There have been threats against us': Gardai call for clear guidelines around how they police evictions
Many officers are unclear as to how they are expected to operate in these incidents.
# evictions - Tuesday 12 March, 2019
Paschal Donohoe met KBC to 'reassure' the bank of support after the Strokestown eviction
The bank was criticised for using private security agents to forcibly remove three siblings from their Roscommon home.
# evictions - Wednesday 6 February, 2019
Man arrested over Strokestown eviction incident released without charge
The man was arrested earlier today following a search of a house in the Killoe area of Longford.
# evictions - Thursday 24 January, 2019
Opinion: Sound the alarm - a proposed EU directive on bad loans will give vulture funds a free rein
A proposed new EU Directive aims to develop a secondary market for non-performing loans and poses a serious threat to the rights of borrowers and consumers, writes Matt Carthy.
# evictions - Thursday 27 December, 2018
More than 50% of people think we should introduce France's winter eviction ban
The ‘trêve hivernale’ has been a part of French law since 1956.
# evictions - Wednesday 19 December, 2018
Roscommon eviction: Gardaí conduct search operation after Sunday's violent scenes
Gardaí are investigating an incident of criminal damage and assault that occurred on Sunday morning.
# evictions - Wednesday 12 December, 2018
Calls for TDs who are landlords to abstain from anti-eviction Bill vote due to conflict of interest
Varadkar said TDs who landlords are able to make a distinction between their personal interests and the public interest,
# evictions - Saturday 16 December, 2017
'People should fight': Cork locals to protest today against plans for mass evictions
The new owners of the Leeside Apartments say they’re set to substantially refurbish the apartment block.
# evictions - Sunday 3 December, 2017
Beijing evictions of migrant workers stir widespread anger
“They are chasing people away from apartments and smashing things.”
# evictions - Saturday 26 August, 2017
'It would make you wonder has anything changed?': Over a century later, Ireland still can't shake its eviction past
The rent uncertainty of today is not only widespread – but goes deep through the ages of Irish history.
# evictions - Wednesday 28 June, 2017
Norris lets rip on vulture funds: 'Why were they allowed into this country?'
Speaking about his new Housing Co-op Bill, Norris said people appear to have forgotten that “eviction” is a dirty word in Ireland.
# evictions - Friday 13 January, 2017
Termination notices sent to Limerick apartment residents to be withdrawn
People living in The Strand apartments had been facing eviction.
# evictions - Monday 16 May, 2016
Ireland 'failing' to provide safeguards to Travellers facing eviction
A Council of Europe committee also found Ireland is not providing Travellers with adequate accommodation.
# evictions - Tuesday 10 May, 2016
Two men arrested as gardaí move Travellers from illegal site
They had been evicted from a halting site in January.
# evictions - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
Residents in Cork face mass eviction from homes
This comes in a week in which there has been outcry over the treatment of tenants in Tyrrelstown.
# evictions - Monday 23 March, 2015
Dublin squatters remain at property after day-long standoff
Residents say about 30 people live at the abandoned property.
# evictions - Monday 9 March, 2015
'I'm sleeping on a friend's sofa on the verge of becoming homeless, I don't know what to do'
Karen says she found herself in this situation because there is no social housing available and the rent supplement is just too low.
# evictions - Thursday 19 June, 2014
Can you believe these Clare sisters were photographed 127 years ago?
The O’Halloran girls fought off an attempted eviction from their home in Bodyke.
# evictions - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
Protest planned as ex-soldiers and families face eviction from Curragh Camp
The government has previously said it would be too costly to carry out repairs to the ageing properties.
# evictions - Friday 11 April, 2014
'The banks are stinkers': Senator Norris joins protest at Dublin auctioneers
The organisers were asking the auctioneers to agree that no properties will be offered for sale where there is a legal dispute.
# evictions - Thursday 27 March, 2014
'Political bulls**t' won't solve housing crisis: Property expert says government needs to act
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett said that tenants have “absolutely no recourse” if their landlord becomes insolvent.
# evictions - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
Pan-European study on evictions to report on measures to counter homelessness
A NUI Galway researcher is to lead the €1 million study on evictions in 28 EU member States.
# evictions - Wednesday 25 September, 2013
Here’s what happened today: Wednesday
Everyone’s been talking about a violent assault in Galway, jobs at Twitter and house repossessions.
# evictions - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
UN slams France as crackdown on Roma accelerates
Forced evictions are placing Roma families in “highly vulnerable” situations, according to UN human rights experts.
# evictions - Thursday 19 April, 2012
VIDEO: Dublin Sheriff's office occupied in protest at Killiney eviction
The protesters are demonstrating against the eviction of Brendan and Asta Kelly from their home in Killiney yesterday.
Listen: 'The bailiffs are here trying to break in the door of my house right now'
Brendan Kelly spoke to Spin 1038 in the minutes before bailiffs forced him and his wife from their Killiney home.
# evictions - Thursday 23 February, 2012
Homeowners evicted and their houses demolished in Azerbaijan - report
Human Rights Watch says that homeowners have been forcibly evicted and their houses demolished in the area where the arena for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is being built.
# evictions - Wednesday 19 October, 2011
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
Nine things to know this morning…
# evictions - Sunday 9 October, 2011
Column: The Dale Farm circus is the last thing Travellers need
Travellers are getting plenty of media attention at the moment – and it doesn’t help the families who’ll be splintered by evictions, writes Ben Archibald of Pavee Point.
# evictions - Monday 26 September, 2011
Dale Farm travellers win latest legal battle at the UK High Court
The eviction of residents at the UK’s biggest illegal travellers’ site has been delayed until at least Thursday.
# evictions - Monday 19 September, 2011
Dale Farm travellers win last-minute injunction against eviction
Travellers had barricaded the halting site and vowed to resist evictions that were to get underway today prior to a court ruling.
# evictions - Thursday 10 March, 2011
National housing agency says tenants face evictions over repossessions
Threshold has called for the new government to amend laws so as that tenants’ rights will be protected.
The 9 at 9: Thursday
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