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Welcome to New Beginning
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Our Aim
At present, borrowers are bearing the full responsibility, that is losing their homes, for what can now be described as excessive lending by financial institutions
FOR MEDIA QUERIES CONTACT:
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
- 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)
- 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)
