Buy yourself a two-bedroom cottage in rural Leitrim for under $10,000

This was a very interesting article.

In the US they hail the guy who caused the housing crisis -he is now holding an economic conference-what a freakin world!

Fine if you have the cash but I have about 10e in my bank account and that has to last me til Friday. Oh the joys of living on the wonderful 'oirish' island. So come over here and live in poverty with the rest of us. It's wonderful i tell ye..

Well, I'n not a socialist or commie like Obamma, but if you're going to give the people something for free, shouldn't housing come before health care? Health care needed for the truly sick, but most of the medical industry is a scam for doctors and hypochondriacs. Whereas, everybody does need a roof over their head.

Totally agree with ya Paddygrant.

@Paddygrant...You hit the nail on the head as many of us have. Why do you suppose the gov't and banks refuse to listen? Very bad here in the states especially in Florida. Not only are there homes vacant and abandoned but they have left behind pets as well. Very sad indeed for all people all over the world.

well said paddygrant. It's still beyond me why all the banks (those here in the US...also) can't just work with the owners rather than foreclosing and invaribly taking a loss on the property value anyway. At least if they would let the owneres stay in the property & pay something then the properties would be taken care of...rather than sitting vacant & then being auctioned-off when they don't sell. These bankers are a very sad lot.....

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It is a damning disgrace that auctions like this should be held up as something wonderful when in fact it is the very opposite, the human pain behind these eviction auctions is nothing less than tragic, families are being forced from their homes by banks who have been bailed out by the very same home owners who now find themselves unable to keep up with the mortgage demands due to the extreme austerity measures imposed by the government to fund the bailouts. People are suffering badly in Ireland, parents are going without food to try to meet the demands of the banks and these repossession auctions only serve to facilitate those vulture banks by allowing them to pick the remaining scraps of meat from the carcass of the most impoverished. people that attend these disgusting auctions are no better than bailiffs that throw desperate families onto the street in their time of need. This is a shameful time for Irish history when we allow auctioneers swoop in like vampires to suck the life blood out of Irish society. I will not be in the least bit surprised if the Anti Eviction Task Force who protested at the last eviction auction are not joined by patriotic Irish Republicans who want a stop to this destruction of Irish society.