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Email: Vincent P. Martin B.L. at  ‘vpmartin@lawlibrary.ie’

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

New Beginning Resilience Seminars – May 2013

- Details of resilience seminars around Ireland being run by New Beginning and psychologist Shane Martin

Insolvency Guidelines

- Published by Insolvency Service (18/4/2013)

All measures should be explored before insolvency

- by Vincent P Martin, Sunday Business Post (14/05/2013)

Mortgage deal can save families as well as banks

- by Ross Maguire, Sunday Independent (16/12/2012)

The people never agreed to pay €3.1bn a year

- by Vincent P Martin, Irish Times (13/12/2012)

New Insolvency Legislation Fits the Bill
– by Stephen Donnelly TD, Sunday Independent (4/11/2012)

AIB looks to pensions to pay split mortgages
– by Simon Carswell, Irish Times (22/10/2012)

Mortgage Arrears: Banking Inaction Hurting Middle Income Earners
– by Nicola Cooke, Sunday Business Post (21/10/2012)

Central Bank director criticises banks for ‘inaction’ in dealing with mortgage arrears
– RTE (16/10/2012)

A Lifeline From Insolvency
– by Ross Maguire, Sunday Business Post (14/10/2012)

Financial Advice Scheme Not As It Seems
– New Beginning (6/9/2012)

Mortgage Arrears Continue to Rise
– New Beginning (23/8/2012)

FLAC; No news in steady growth of mortgage arrears- just rising cost of human misery countrywide
– FLAC (23/8/2012)

Trumping a system trampling on rights
– by Andrew Robinson BL, Irish Times (20/8/2012)

Mortgage Arrears Rising
– by Ciaran Hanna, InsideIreland.ie (19/8/2012)

Courts won’t roll over for the State
– by Ross Maguire SC, Irish Times (16/7/2012)

A chink of light but the banks still hold veto on debt divorce
– by Stephen Kinsella, Irish Independent (3/7/2012)

Mortgage Arrears Supplementray Information Department of Justice & Equality (29/6/2012)

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 Memorandum - published 29 June 2012

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012- published 29 June 2012

Minister Says Insolvency Bill to be Published by End of the Month
– by Carol Coulter, Irish Times (19/6/2012)

Banks and Write-Downs
– by Edel Morgan, Irish Times (31/5/2012)

State mortgage advice service to compete with private agency
– by Charle Weston, Irish Independent (29/5/2012)

Irish Lawyers Battle Bankers
– by Finbarr Flynn, Bloomberg (28/5/2012)

Insolvency Service to Aid Home Owners
– by Evelyn Ring, Irish Examiner (26/5/2012)

A quarter of a century of voter power 

- by Vincent P Martin, Irish Times (21/5/2012)

Guest Piece by Ross Maguire
– by Ross Maguire, PILA Bulletin (16/5/2012)

New beginning after mortgage settlement
– by Jill Kirby, Kilkenny People (6/5/2012)

New Beginning Battles Banks Over Tide of Repossessions

- by Brendan Morely, Sunday Independent (25/3/2012)

Affordable housing owner seeks to halt repossession
– by Mary Carolan, Irish Times (16/5/2012)

Letter to Irish Times
– Irish Times (3/2/2012)

Challenges to Laws Affecting Home Owners
– by Ross Maguire, PILA Bulletin (11/1/2012)

The Reluctant Revolutionaries
– by Kathy Sheridan, Irish Times (17/12/2011)

A New Beginning
– by Eoin Weldon, Cork Independent (8/12/2011)

Anniversary of New Beginning
– by Vincent P Martin, Irish Times (21/11/2011)

Recent high court judgement

- Judgement of Ms.Justice Dunne, delivered (25/07/2011)

We owe nothing to the banks that deserted us
– by Ross Maguire, Sunday Business Post (9/01/2011)

Bank files expose dubious mortgage-loan practices
– by Maeve Sheehan, Sunday Independent (12/12/2010)

Start Mortgages’ authorisation to lend faces legal challenge
– Issued by Rachel Graham (29/11/2010)

Legal powers of the County Registrar in granting repossession orders to be challenged
– Issued by Rachel Graham (16/11/2010)

New group aims to fight for rights of homeowners
– Sunday Business Post (7/11/2010)

If lawyers can be merciful, banks can write off debts
– Sunday Times (7/11/2010)

Pray for a new beginning to help Pope’s Children
– by David McWilliams, Irish Independent (3/11/2010)

Free Legal Help for Struggling Homeowners
– Examiner (1/11/2010)

Homeowners get a helping hand
– by Pat Flanagan, Irish Daily Mirror (1/11/2010)

It’s time for convictions not evictions
– Irish Daily Mirror (1/11/2010)

The Daily Show
(1/11/2010)

Sometimes attack is best form of defence
– by Vincent P Martin, Sunday Independent (31/10/2010)

Lifeline for troubled homeowners
– by Maeve Sheehan, Sunday Independent (31/10/2010)

Homeowners are given ray of hope in battle with lenders
– by Maeve Sheehan, Sunday Independent (31/10/2010)

Time to address negligence of reckless lending
– by Ross Maguire, Irish Times (26/10/2010)