Roscommon eviction

Do you consider Kylie Minogue to be Australian?

A pluralist, United Ireland is the only way unification will be satisfactorily achieved, which will be inclusive of people of a different mindset, be it political, cultural, religious etc.

My original point which ilikeflynn has very capably expanded on, and further by Sid, is that the relevance of Unification and Brexit is that if you believe in unification, and wish for Brexit to be repudiated, an objection to where the security staff come from is inconsistent. They have the right to be here, and a Republican should automatically agree with this. Also, if you oppose Brexit, by implication you agree with the rights to freely move and work, and in turn a hard border or a customs border (both of which are incredibly bad and would hark back to the bad times) in a Brexit situation could impact the ability of such people to work here freely. Again, I would see it as inconsistent.

Those who feed this mindset are playing a dangerous game. Also, there are people who will feed this as they have a very strong vested interest in undermining the system of repossessions and foreclosure. Rather than looking to legal or regulatory defence harking back to history, which is abusively compared to the modern situation, is done in order to whip up tensions and appeal to nationalist sentiment. It is inappropriate.

Also, I’d be interested to know where you see this possible illegality in the eviction? If you’re going on the footage, we can only speculate as to what happened in the run up to the filming. 

I think the problem, and it is a problem, albeit one that is being lost as people solely discuss their political and religious  background, is their personal background and way of doing it. 

Hiring thugs and goons, whether Irish, British or Greek, to physically turf people out,   especially the two seemingly  innocent parties in this eviction, is causing a big mess for everyone.

Adding in people with a loyalist background in the  north, while it should be  irrelevant, it is making a rod for their own back. This is especially true when you have groups like Gilroy's spouting irrelevant pseudo-nationalism.

There is no doubt that that aspect was incredibly careless.

PM hits the nail on the head when he makes mention of the cultural insensitivity. I can totally agree with that. There are more sensitive approaches that can be employed However, people have to know that it’s not an argument in this case, and it goes to

Sid’s point about Republican v Nationalist.

Just curious here for those in the banking world. Someone is in arrears and they have paid 30,000 so far on a house that cost 300,000. They are never gonna afford to pay it off. Let's say the house would now be sold for €315,000 do the banks ever make a deal and say look you've paid 30k - when we sell the house we can give you 10k back from it once it's sold? 

Also, if you’re on an interest only mortgage, I would have thought that until you start paying down the capital you would be effectively paying the cost of the loan, and even if the house sold for an excess of the  original capital price, you could be scuppered from getting anything back if the interest exceeds the price bump?

In fairness to Jim, he is a Scottish nationalist too. He believes an independent Scotland would be free 'from Islamification'.

A touch of Willie Frazer about him.