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Offline John Grace

Evictions in Ireland
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2012, 09:27:40 AM »
Update regarding Seamus Sherlock. They still have barricaded the family farm and haven't been evicted.

Irish Ways and Irish Laws by Ceart Abú Saighdiúir Dé

"Seamus Sherlock No Eviction Here"
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Offline John Grace

Evictions in Ireland
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2012, 05:30:21 PM »
I’m doing it for all those who couldn’t take it any more
http://www.oneworldchronicle.com/?p=7389
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THE tea cups and sandwich wrappers are being cleared away as men pull on outdoor coats and put the security cabin to rights. Up in the log cabin, some of the night shift are stretching and waking, while others arrive in cars at the gate, ready to relieve those who have been on duty all day. It could be the changeover on a factory production line but it is, in fact, the polar opposite. These people are giving up their time to stand guard at the home of Seamus Sherlock and his family in Feohanagh to prevent the Bank of Scotland executing an eviction order. By the time Limerick Post readers see this article, the Sherlock family will have been barricaded into their home for 70 days. Seamus started the ‘Life After Debt’ advocacy and support group after he lost his income overnight five years ago. “My business was cutting turf and I supplied more than 400 people but in one stroke of a pen, the bog was closed and I was out of business,” he told the Limerick Post. Seamus never received any compensation for his loss and got into trouble with paying the mortgage on the family home. ‘There was nothing I could do at the time but soon afterwards my son started working the farm and we started to get back on our feet. Now we have a five-figure sum sitting in my  solicitor’s office and the bank are refusing to take it. I’m not looking for any write-down – all I want is a longer term to pay the mortgage”. When the eviction order arrived on his doorstep, Seamus called his children together and told them he wanted to fight. “They all said we should do it. We have no choice. We have nowhere to go. We will resist peacefully if they come to put us out but they will have to beat me to make me leave and they’ll have to kill me to stop me coming back.

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Offline John Grace

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« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2012, 05:32:17 PM »
Life goes on the barricades: Day 77!!
http://www.oneworldchronicle.com/?p=7440
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JJ Sherlock (14) was celebrating playing with the Feohanagh/Castlemahon team that won the minor county championship last week. The week before that, his older brother Dermot (23) also celebrated being on the victorious side in the West Limerick Junior B hurling final. Their father, Seamus, has never missed a game but he had to miss both his sons’ victories because he cannot leave his home in case the sheriff’s officers move in and seize the property. The three youngest Sherlock girls, Bernadette (19), Brigid (18) and Mary-Kate (13) scramble over silage bales each morning, dragging their school-bags with them because the bales are set firmly in place against the door of their house to prevent anyone coming in to evict them. For a 14 year-old, JJ is remarkably stoic about what is, at best, a very pressured situation. “I’m proud of my dad – he’s doing it for us. No-one in my school has anything negative to say and the teachers and staff just say ‘stay strong’. We’re not giving in”, he told the Limerick Post. The small army of helpers who have come to stand guard with the Sherlocks feel the same way. John Mullen comes down from Dublin any day he has off. “I’m here to support Seamus and his family. Where does it stop? They can’t put everyone in the country out on the side of the road.” George Sheehy is a neighbour from a mile up the road. “I come every day to do a few hours. I believe Seamus is dead right to try to keep his house for his family”.

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