IT is only a few years since Irish banks picked the pockets of every taxpayer for a bail-out to keep them in business. Now they don’t want our money. Well, not the cash anyway; the coins and paper notes. All of the main banks now run some cash-free branches. They don’t take in money and […]
THE High Court has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement (PIA) in which a massive €343,785 mortgage debt was reduced by more than half. The case involves a woman who ran into mortgage arrears because of her husband’s gambling problem. Permanent TSB had objected to the deal. It argued that the write-down to €160,000, the current […]