An elderly couple were evicted yesterday from their home in Killiney, Co Dublin, after falling behind on mortgage payments to the institution previously known as the Irish Nationwide Building Society.
Speaking as bailiffs representing the bank entered her home, Asta Kelly (63) said she and her husband Brendan (71) had had trouble paying the mortgage. She said they had tried to negotiate with the bank to prevent the eviction. “The evictions that happened 160 years ago in Ireland are happening again,” she told radio station Spin 1038. They were being “instigated from banks that ruined the whole country”.
“Now we’re at their mercy – they can take your home instead of renegotiating.”
In a statement, the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, with which the building society has merged, confirmed it had served a repossession order on a house in Killiney. It said it could not comment on individual cases but “a full legal process” had been followed.
