The Irish Times quietly removed this story from their “tell us your woes, landlords” article – the charming tale of a Guard providing details of an unlicensed debt collector to a landlord to facilitate an assault and illegal eviction

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  4. The story sounded like BS anyway.

    Not saying that violent evictions don’t happen but the story as presented was shite friend of a friend story that falls into the category of chalk marks under your door mat meaning your place was cased and shoes on an overhead wire means drug deals happen here, rather than some teens acting the fool and had to walk home barefoot.

  12. “My friend told me the story of a….”

    That is utterly shite journalism and should never have been published in the first place.

  15. There will be a lot more of this pro-landlord propaganda coming too, as more and more people are finding themselves homeless or on the verge of it.

  16. Considering our very grim history with landlords over the last few centuries, it’s incredible how little self awareness some people have when defending them

  17. Stories like this are a pretty regular thing unfortunately.

    Number of years ago, when living as a student. Landlord stupidly told us he was sending a debt collector around, and the time he’d be there.

    He was met by 10 lads sitting out front holding Hurls, Hammers & Air soft guns.

    Never heard from that landlord again. The corrupt fucker.

    (Found out the house wasn’t registered so we refused to pay rent til he showed up and fixed the gaff up).

  20. Awful lot of caping for landlords in the comments, sucks to see even if the story is pure power fantasy bullshit. You’re closer to being homeless than being a parasite who gets other people to pay their mortgage, always remember that.

  21. Pure Class warfare is going on.

    These people’s only aims are to extract as many resources as they can from the rest of us, without ever expecting to give back.

  23. The sooner people realise Ireland is an “US vs THEM” society and that those employed in positions of power consider themselves superior to anyone else will this behaviour continue.

    Anyone, and I mean absolutely anyone employed in a position that gives them significant power over someone or a group of people and have the ability to drastically change that persons or groups lives needs to be strictly monitored to ensure they do not abuse that power. Instead we have a “sure they’re the professionals, we shouldn’t be questioning them” mentality when with the history Ireland has we 100% should be.

  24. One of the sections cut is Jim O’Brien, Co Dublin admitting to not paying the RTB

    >The first bad indication was when Revenue decided the board’s annual fee was not a tax-deductible expense. I paid it initially, then ignored it. I was never chased for outstanding fees, such was the competence of the RTB

    You don’t openly admit to dodging one of the most well-funded offices in Government who have the means to vet your financial history.
    Wouldn’t be surprised if Revenue were able to identify who this person is and call them about the article and non-payments.

  26. Reads like the 1 star reviews that consist of 1% of the ratings of a product on amazon which has an average rating of 4.9/5 stars. Landlords are still having field day, getting more money than ever in Irish history. Biased Irish times for the upper classes.

  27. Of course the IT removed it. Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi doesn’t belong in a newspaper

  28. the fact they even printed this, like they tried to normalise his behaviour is fucking disgusting and crazy.

    fuck the irish times.

    fuck those tenants

    fuck that landlord

    and fuck that garda

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