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Over 77,000 now behind on mortgage or rental bills

Friday November 20 2009

AT LEAST 77,500 households are in arrears on their mortgages and rent payments.

Charlie Weston: Help needed now more than ever for homeowners

Charlie Weston Friday November 20 2009

THERE can be little doubt that we are now in the midst of a mortgage meltdown. Yesterday's figures from the Central Statistics Office show that 77,500 households are in arrears on their mortgages and rent payments.

Mortgage scheme fast-tracked to save homeowners

Wednesday November 18 2009

THE Cabinet decided yesterday it would fast-track a scheme to rescue mortgage holders at risk of losing their homes.

We must free shackled generation

Sunday November 15 2009

IT is now widely recognised that the Government will have no choice but to impose public sector pay cuts in the Budget.

Taoiseach urged to give O'Leary spot in Cabinet

Saturday November 14 2009

BUSINESS giants such as Michael O'Leary should be immediately drafted into the Cabinet to spearhead the country's economic recovery, a leading academic claimed yesterday.

Mortgage nightmare

Tuesday November 10 2009

AMONG the fears inflicted on individuals and families by the financial crisis, one of the most nightmarish is the fear of losing one's home. The danger of house repossessions has not yet assumed the importance of rescuing the banks or repairing the public finances, but it will certainly receive more and more attention as events unfold.

Silence spells end of easy funding

Sunday November 08 2009

Last week Tom Kitt's Committee on Arts, Sports and Tourism had an opportunity to showcase its credentials.

Geraghty's des res and the house Jack 'built'

Sunday November 08 2009

'I BUILT my house in 1988. How is it a 'trophy house'? I don't want this crap coming at me!" It was Pat Kenny, but certainly not as we have known him at any time during all his years at RTE. Deadly serious and deadly boring are just two of the ways most people would describe Pat -- a science graduate who looks like an accountant and speaks as carefully as a lawyer, but chooses instead to make a rather handsome living from broadcasting.

Tax hikes 'will exile well paid' - Lenihan

Sunday November 08 2009

THE Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, has been warned by his officials that if he increases taxes in the Budget next month, high earners are likely to flee the country.