Written 11 months ago by Rebecca Donnelly

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The Bank of Ireland CEO Richie Boucher has told an Oireachtas committee that, while it is a last resort, there is a ‘regrettable inevitability’ that repossession cases will rise due to the increase in house prices. The latest CSO figures show that the cost of buying a home in the midlands has risen by fifteen per cent in the past year. John McGrath, Chairman of the Phoenix Project, has been speaking to Will O Callaghan on the Midlands Today Show:

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