{"id":412992,"date":"2026-04-23T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412992\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:04:10","slug":"retired-solicitor-fends-off-debt-firms-bid-for-possession-of-e800000-dublin-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412992\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired solicitor fends off debt firm\u2019s bid for possession of \u20ac800,000 Dublin home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Reasons for delay in executing 2009 court order not fully explained, judge says\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a9bdeab6-4039-41d6-962c-ee39f4c3558b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A retired solicitor who worked at one of the country\u2019s leading law firms has stopped a credit servicing company from taking his \u20ac800,000 home after successfully arguing that lenders took too long to execute a possession order granted 17 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mortgage lender EBS got a court order in 2009 for possession of James O\u2019Neill\u2019s home on Mount Venus Road, Rathfarnham, in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains, but did not act to enforce it. The loan was sold in 2021 to Mars Capital Finance Ireland DAC, which this week sought to enforce the possession order at Dublin Circuit Court due to the non-payment of a mortgage debt of close to \u20ac560,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reasons for delay in executing 2009 court order not fully explained, judge says Stock image A retired solicitor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9924,20926,61,60,43,9657],"class_list":{"0":"post-412992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-dublin-courts","9":"tag-ebs","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-shane-phelan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}