Can’t believe I’m saying this but I have to agree with Michael noonan theres a difference between those who can’t pay and those who won’t pay. The sympathy I felt for these people when watching the eviction for the first time quickly went away when the true story came out. I’m sure he wouldn’t allow one of his own tenants not pay their rent for over 2 years. Well I hope they get nice weather for camping!

The neighbours must be furious that they live beside a camp site. If travellers did that, the Gardai would be all over them like a rash.

Jaysus in all my years of camping hes the first one i seen doin it with a suit on.

The rich guy turfed out of his 3million euro home and refusing to move into one of his other more lowly properties? Jany mac, I think amnesty should lobby the U.N!

According to the paper today this couple have 21 propertys, 21!!! Including one in Canary Warf,

This couple are trying to play a game and they’ve already lost it, they could easly have moved into one of the propertys or have sold some or all in order to keep their 2M euro home.

You’d have to be nuts to support this couple

Folks, know when you’re beaten. Your cynical ploy for sympathy has failed. The taxpayer will not keep you in your mansion.

Even our toerag politicians aren’t buying this tripe. Maybe your friends in Occupy Dame Street can put you up, at least until you serve a notice of eviction on one of your tenants ( looking forward to the media coverage of that).

Something tells me this couple are not going to be able to hack living in tent for very long.

OMG it sooo like totally Occupy Killiney

It really is like something out of a Ross O’ Carroll Kelly book!! Charles and Fionuala, is that you!?

Absolutely no sympathy whatsoever. Multi property owners, wife has extensive business interests abroad. Wake up to reality you dicks. There is a mile of a difference between these people and the unfortunates that have lost their employment and are unable to service their mortgage on benifit.

Nutcases

Must be the first time I’ve seen almost completely unanimous comments on thejournal. Good to see the majority of people see through the game this arrogant, self-important couple were playing at – trying to stir up the deep seated Irish antipathy to eviction. In this case it was right and proper. Hopefully the banks can recoup some of the costs their wild and reckless speculation has incurred

The funniest thing is that as a couple in their 70s, they have no an idea of what’s going on online, twitter, internet chat rooms etc.
If they did, they’d quickly realise that nobody in the country has any sympathy at all for them.
I landlord with over 20 properties.
The failure to pay ANY repayments since 2009.
The clear notice of eviction since 2010.
The bailiffs were actually quite reasonable with the greedy auld todger.

Can they not rent one of their other 20 properties and become their own landlords….my heart bleeds.

Is it true that there are outstanding payments on this tent and the camping store will be repossessing it next week?

why are you giving these people airtime. Surely there are more important stories.

Oh look at me with my 6 man, double bedroom dome tent. Good luck putting your pegs into that Tarmac.

Ah gerry, the law says if you don’t keep up with her mortgage payments the bank has every right to take back the house.

The ” tent” is as big as the house and I like the way he moved his and her Merc’s so they could set up “home” in picture 3.

Only in this country could members of a social elite that personifies everything that went wrong in this country be backed by a group formed to resist the fallout from the action of two greedy gits like the Kelly’s . Shame on Occupy dame st , you backed the wrong horse !

These people and others like them are the reason houses purchased in Dublin were at such an inflated price. Speculation on a basic human need.
ie. Roof over ones head and adequate shelter frankly makes me sick. No sympathy here!!! Tough. You gamble, ride the waves.

Spare a thought for these poor aul ordinary decent former millionaire landlords, what’s the world coming to when ya can’t even stay in your 5 bedroom luxury mansion? My heart bleeds for these poor old sods.

I wonder if one or more of this couples tenants are considering not paying rent, imagine the craic!! There is such a bias toward property ownership in this country and ‘keeping people in their homes’ as if the only other option for them is a famine pit. It’s not 1850, there are many upsides to renting? By the by if I stop paying rent will the Occupy movement fight my corner?

The joke for me is that as we struggle to pay the mortgage on our one-and-only property with what is now only my wife’s recently-cut salary, we can only dream of buying a tent as nice as that.

To be fair, none of their other 21 properties has adequate servants quarters, maybe the state should offer up Farmleigh House.

Nice tent!

This is getting beyond a joke do they really think there going to get sympathy I’m sorry but they can’t be stuck for money they have many properties surely there breaking the law by staying on the public road please tell them get a grip and stop making a show of themselves and let the protest for somebody who needs it. And please stop giving these nutters an outlet for there problems with the bank just because they won’t pay there mortgage personally I don’t want to know.

Who gives a shite?? I don’t! let the fat cats move into one of their other 21 properties. Sick of hearing about them now. If it was people with no money and no other place to go. These 2 have both. They can’t expect to live for free so fu@k them!

I think that if this couple had children this would never have happened. Could you imagine your children allowing you to make such a fool of yourself ? Think about it

Muppets. No sympathy from the public, are they expecting the bailiffs to return their keys?? Why arent the gardai over moving them on from camping on the street, public health& all that.
They disgust me to be honest with all the genuines who cant afford repayments, who dont have a clatter of properties to pick & choose from to move into.
Get to grips the pair of ye , stop bringing the to e of what im sure is a nice road down.

What exactly are they triying to prove?

I’m not sure if they’re taking the piss to be honest

What are they trying to prove? That they’re victims and have no other choice but to live on the side of the road? That’s not going to wash with anyone. Nobody likes to see anyone get evicted but I find it very hard to believe that this couple have no other choice but to be where they are right now. If it’s a sit-in protest well then that’s not working either. If the arse was entirely out of the trousers you’d have no hesitation in organising a whip-around to get them into a B&B but this is just acting the maggot.

These people can’t be serious. I hope that people who are walking by are informing the couple just how out of touch they are and that the public at large don’t support their ‘plight’.

Now a video id love to see would be them getting evicted from the tent.

That’s my tent from Oxygen

Camping outside the house. What a pair of idiots.

I wouldn’t let this story piss me off too much. Just take it for what it is.. comedy gold.

I wonder if these two actually see themselves as making some point.. maybe they know exactly how ironic it is and are playing up to it. Those two, of all people; don’t want to see tenants or ‘home’-owners protected.

would they ever feck off, it’s like something out of a father ted episode!!

I forgot to add I hope they enjoy camping and it pisses rain for the next few weeks!!

Occupy Killiney;

We are the 1%

The two person Occupy Killiney branch.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he was charging his wife rent to sleep in the tent.

I see they have short arms and deep pockets.

Time to grow out my hair, not wash and join their crusade! Poor elderly people nowadays, forced to live like crustys!

They should sell all their other properties and buy tents for all those who lost their houses in similar circumstances……

They own many properties and get a mortgage for 2 million or some ridiculous amount when he is in his sixties and never taught that he wouldn’t be able to afford it down the line,and he protests about being evicted when he wouldn’t sell his other properties because they would be sold at a loss,no sympathy what so ever what about all the genuine people out there who were evicted from homes because they simply couldn’t afford to pay the mortgage,and hea big cry for help through media because they are probably friends with some journalists!why can’t they just move into one of there many other properties and stop looking for sympathy!

I have ZERO sympathy for them and their situation but was still shocked by the video of their eviction. I retrospect, I’d say it was set up to create exactly that reaction…kinda backfired on them though :)

I heard he swiped the tent from “occupy dame street” when they weren’t looking

a man who owns 18 properties and drives a Bentley get a grip and no more coverage of this greedmonger please

Is the tent liable for the household charge
I wonder does chapter 1 do takeaway

Why didn’t they just sell off some of their other properties to pay their mortgage outright. I know its hard to sell houses now but he could have taken the hit like everyone else. There are people out there pawning their stuff just to put food on the table. Guarantee they would have evicted any of their own tenants for not paying their rent. There is a difference between those who can pay and those who choose not to.

Why doesn’t the sobbing neighbour who made the post on you tube put them up poor souls!!! Tents don’t look well in that street .

O D S have forgotten about the 99%

Now it turns out they didn’t stay in the tent last night at all. A family friend says they went away for a bit to get away from it all.

Is this all a massive pisstake? Because I am starting to expect Mr Kelly to rip off his rubber mask to reveal David McSavage.

Would you ever feck off. No sympathy here.

Lads, even the tent is a mansion.

These pair of fools must have the same PR advisors as our Government .

Does anyone around here know how hard it is to run a portfolio of 20 homes.
No didn’t think so.
Well it’s bloody hard. I don’t know why I didn’t stop at 19. Life was so much more bearable back then.

The only reason they are camping outside is because all the cash they have stashed away from the rent of the other 20 properties is in the house…So to all the thieves out there, ya know what house to go for…..

This really is ridiculous they Are completely dragging this out into a fiasco when there is so many more worse off people. They brought the entire thing on themselves, well I hope it pisses down from the heavens on them.

I’m tempted to actually see are they there 24/7… I somehow doubt it. I might drive up there and see although I’d be tempted to drive over them…

I wonder what the monthly income is off the twenty properties, they don’t seem to like talking about that, even if they got 500 per property that’s ten thousand a month, not bad if you can get it!

They should have stayed in Germany ! Tent doesn’t look good on that street! Why doesn’t the blubbering neighbour who filmed the eviction put them up?

Nice tent. Must’ve cost a pretty penny…

ive a caravan if they want an upgrade ill swap them for one of theor twenty houses

Pair of wankers I hope it pisses rain and snows

Shivaun, there is someone being pursued over here in US court. A Irish bank is trying to repossess his US property. It may be one of the two you mentioned?

Should take their tent too. Dnt get a lone if ya can’t pay it bak

Hilarious!

Nice sympathy for the 1%

Why not just repossess one of his other 20 houses, and keep repossessing until the debt is paid?
No time for this guy or his wife, pure greed and now they’re just milking the system, hope they get no public support.

lovely house… do ye think they’d mind if I moved in with my kids for a while .. I mean seeing that it’s empty an’ all. They have got 20 others… do you think they’d ask me to pay rent… ok, ok I’m going

The ceaucescu-kellys

Property speculation is a business. And as we know many businesses fail. When people invest vast sums of money,some of them were obviously thinking of the loads of money that they would be making. But they didn’t seem to think of what might happen if this doesn’t go to plan. I have no problem with people investing money and gaining from it, but you have to think can I afford it if I lose this money. If you can afford to gamble and lose then that’s perfectly ok, but not if you can’t.
Money and greed, it’s such an awful thing with some people.

Maybe they are just taking a holiday and don’t like traveling far from home…….

My heart goes out to this “poor” couple.

These people are millionaires. They own EIGHTEEN other properties!! They are playing joe public!! Cop on all of you!!

It’s great to see rich people taken down a peg.

there’s no Bailiffs at Oxygen.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/conch_world/6955836108/

Well Enda, put you Pampers on!
This is only the tip of the Massive Mortgage Ice Berg…. Many my laugh at these elderly “fools”,but the snake oil sales men from Anglo Irish Bank Inc,and their limp dog cohorts have produced a mortgage Tsunami that is already lapping over Enda’s wellies…….

Stop outside and play The Red Flag. Im sure they know the lyrics. If not, Im sure the Occupy people will be able to help them hum along.

Which former home? God bless these poor poor people it must be terrible for them.

Where’s my comment gone?

The Killiney Two also own 13 apartments in London.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0424/1224315104103.html?via=mr

The tally grows.

Considering their tent is occupying a road would it be possible for the council to charge them rent on that land for the duration of their camp? I can’t think of any camping site that’s free anywhere else so why should these two get one?

I’m with Shivaun Huggard on this.
The media have floated a huge red herring in the Kelly’s and you are all swallowing it.
There are those who can’t pay,
Those who won’t pay ( The Kelly’s) and those who won’t pay but are in NAMA
The only thing the Kelly’s did wrong was not donate huge sums to FF or FG and not run up Billions of debts instead of millions. Had they done so they would have the full backing of Inda & Noonan and would still be in their (IRBC’s) Killiney mansion laughing at the rest of us.
These 2 clowns are not the real problem
When will the NAMA developers be evicted?

Maybe I’m wrong but I do feel sorry for them. They have lots of properties but I’m sure all are deeply in negative equity. They sold their business to buy property. Regardless of its size, it was their home they were removed from. Why are people being heartless about this? Has any developer, banker or politician been booted out of their home?

From Fidays Herald
”Mr Noonan said systems in place to keep struggling householders in their homes have been well thought through. He warned that the Government was not in the business of rescuing professional landlords who refuse to pay debt”.
“I think it’s been well designed. The Government has pledged, insofar as possible, to keep people in their own homes,” the minister said. “We have no pledge to keep people in 21 different homes and we must distinguish between people who can’t pay and people who won’t pay. For those who can’t pay, we have a series of policies so that the banks will deal with (debtors) on a case-by-case basis to relieve the burden.”

Noonan
Your Government and your Banks have done nothing for Struggling Householders!
You have done nothing but chastise them and push them further into the Abyss!
With high interest rates,property taxes and ignorance!
Save your Can’t Pay and Wont Pay comments for your Banking and NAMA Cronies.

Enda and Noonan go out of their way to cast judgment on these pensioners.

Yet they ”will not comment on individual cases” when it comes to NAMA’s and Anglo’s Pets.

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/revealed-top-13-borrowers-who-owe-anglo-3081219.html

The Kellys brought their life savings home and invested it in Ireland.

They worked all their lives and put real money (from the sale of their business) on the table.

Unlike some of our whining spoilt ”Celtic Cubs” waiting for someone to make a job for them.

Again our sheltered Government crawl out of their safe Cocoon and make smarmy childish comments about things they don’t understand.

Were you never taught that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

You wan’t to watch what you say guys.

There’s a lot of dirt, yet to be exposed in our corrupt banks, government (past and present) and senior civil service .

I hope the Kellys take a case against this corrupt bank, government and financial ”regulator” cartel.

After all the Kellys paid for a lot of these crowds fat salaries, out of their Stamp Duty and Interest payments.

Conned out of their life savings by the ”Great Celtic Tiger Property Ponzi Scheme”

It takes some chutzpah to a) stay in your home unprepared (i.e. not removing your stuff at least) knowing the Republican B’ Specials were coming to get you; b) be prepared to make a spectacle of yourself before the world and know you would be ridiculed when they discovered by their judgment you must be rich owning a large portfolio; and c) erect a tent in the street bringing the distress of your wife to an even greater level of discomfort. He may not be able to rehouse himself in any of his tenanted properties but he most certainly would find himself obliged to stay with me were I one of his neighbours.
I say “good on yer, mate”. It’s clear to me at least why you’re doing it and it takes a clever and courageous man to take the action you have done.
As for the banks and Kenny I wouldn’t spit on them for the worthless shower of n’er do wells they are. No one seems bothered by the biggest shower of all – THE AUDITORS! They must have known the true state of affairs for years.
Get rid of accountancy – its the cancer of society.

”THE TAOISEACH ENDA Kenny has described as “peculiar” the circumstances surrounding the eviction of a husband and wife from their South Dublin home earlier in the week”.

Yes Enda.
It’s called ”Fighting Corrupt Banks Every Step Of The Way To Keep Your Property”

It definitely would seem peculiar to you.

Well Enda .Put you Pampers on…. While many will Rue these old foolish investors…… The Snake Oil Sales Men form Anglo Irish Bank & thier Sycophant other “Bankers” have created a mortgage Tusmini that is already lapping over Enda’s wellies

EVICTION is EVICTION no matter what one’s financial circumstances. A few years ago nobody would thought much about a €3 million house. A lot of regular semi-detached houses were in the asking price of €1 million. These people were forced out of their home by THUGS. I have difficulty in comprehending why no one is actually kicking up about the likes of Sean Dunne and Gayle Killilea who absconded the country and left a financial mess which we are all paying for. Why not get on your high horses and make noise about them. Dunne and Killilea purchased a multi million US$ house in Belle Haven, CT, USA which is known as the millionaire’s belt. Why not shout and make them accountable for their part in taking this country down yet there they are swaggering around in Belle Haven. These are the people we should have an outcry about.

Eviction in any sense is bad . Whatever the circumstances or the undertones of wealth and begrudging its such a shame . Brings me back to the history books in school and the section about the famine . And don’t bother saying their rich and deserve it……………. its a land grab in any form . i just hope the law eventually catches up with common sense and justice !!!!! (Sadly it hasn’t caught up so far !!)

Enda Kenny gets very little, but he managed to get a job for his director of elections. It’s almost impossible to sell anything at the moment and if the couples business was anything other than property there would be a more balanced view. If they their business was furniture would they be expected to sell the lot at a massive loss? Yes Enda doesn’t get it and should resign

Anyone know if there’s censorship here at the Journal because my comments of support for this couple have ‘disappeared’ and I wonder why? My point was we are savages for not supporting this couple. It was their ‘home’ stolen by Anglo.

X

Fair Play To You Brendan and Astra!!!!

You’ve made it into the U.K press.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/9214560/Elderly-couple-forcibly-evicted-from-Dublin-mansion.html

I feel sorry for them.they sold their business to buy property. Those properties are in negative equity. This was their home that was taken from them. No sign of any politician or developer losing their homes is there?