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SAM BOAL/RollingNews.ie

Beds and furniture removed from Apollo House as legal proceedings officially end

The receivers intend to sell the building, which forms part of a block due for re-development.

HIGH COURT PROCEEDINGS brought over the occupation of Apollo House in Dublin City Centre have been formally ended.

Justice Paul Gilligan was informed by Stephen Dowling Bl for receivers over the property today that all the remaining items of property, including furniture and beds brought into the building, have been removed.

During the occupation, a large number of items of property had been donated by members of the public to the Home Sweet Home coalition, the group that organised the takeover.

All persons who had occupied the building left Apollo House by 12 January.
However, the legal action, where the receivers sought orders ending what they said was an illegal trespass, was adjourned on several occasions so that all the items brought into the building could be removed.

90438262_90438262 Supporters leaving Apollo House on the day they were ordered to vacate the premises. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

The judge welcomed the news and struck out the proceedings with no order.
Solicitor Gary Daly who represented the defendants in the case musician Glen Hansard, trade unionist Brendan Ogle and activists Aisling Hedderman and Carrie Hennessy, who are all members of the Irish Housing Network group, thanked the judge.

The occupation began in December when the building, located on Tara Street and Townsend Street in Dublin, was offered as accommodation to the homeless by the Home Sweet Home group.

Receivers appointed over the building then secured a High Court injunction requiring the occupiers to leave the building.  Justice Gilligan placed a stay on his order allowing the occupants to remain on until noon on Wednesday 11 January.

An application for an extension of the deadline was refused and all the residents left the following day.

The injunction was sought by Tom O’Brien and Simon Coyle of Mazars, who were appointed joint receivers over the building by a Nama related company Nalm Ltd in 2014, to vacate the property and restraining the illegal trespass at Apollo House.

The joint receivers were appointed over the property by Nalm Ltd. It acquired loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to the building’s owners Cuprum Properties Ltd who had defaulted on borrowing of approximately €357,000,000.

The receivers intend to sell the building, which forms part of a block due for re-development.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 3:49 PM

    Oil prices plunged……. lets see it at the pumps

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    Jul 12th 2022, 4:06 PM

    @Gert McNulty: 2.02 here for diesel in Dundalk. Think I seen it at 1.98 at some places.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 4:13 PM

    @Gert McNulty: won’t happen. MM and LV making to much money on taxing petrol. Just stay hard pressed, head down and don’t question. That’s what they like.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 5:03 PM

    @Gert McNulty: the euro has plunged in value against the dollar (of which oil is bought and sold) so this will have a negative effect on the prices at the pump, fall in oil prices will cancel this out somewhat.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 5:24 PM

    @Gert McNulty: WE wont see todays oil price for another few weeks yet but hopefully it will come to fruition at the pumps

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    Jul 12th 2022, 7:42 PM

    @JillyBean: its funny. It goes up aful quick the other way !!

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    Jul 12th 2022, 5:14 PM

    On the plus side, it will encourage American tourists to spend more. On the negative side, there’ll be more Americans visiting here.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 5:25 PM

    @Buzz Killington: lol

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    Jul 12th 2022, 3:21 PM

    Already here

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    Jul 12th 2022, 4:14 PM

    People don’t realise this is big news

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    Jul 12th 2022, 4:51 PM

    I keep an eye on about 4 different currencies including the dollar because I travel quite a bit with the job.
    The only thing I see is a strengthening USD. The Euro hasn’t really changed against the others at all.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 4:05 PM

    A European wide recession ?? Let’s blame FF FG and the Greens of course ..

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    Jul 12th 2022, 6:47 PM

    @Ciaran: how about SF they definitely are to blame with their expensive dinners

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    Jul 12th 2022, 3:20 PM

    Arrrgghh, money

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    Jul 12th 2022, 3:44 PM

    If raising interest rates in the states is having the slowing effect, why is Europe not raising theirs?

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    Jul 12th 2022, 3:49 PM

    @The Bolt: They are.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 4:00 PM

    @JedBartlett: Kind of want to get a move on wouldn’t they? There’s obviously more pain to come the longer they leave it, no?

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    Jul 12th 2022, 8:08 PM

    US started the war, now the EU is the victim

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    Jul 12th 2022, 8:40 PM

    @Godknows: The US never starts a war near the US.
    The people of the US would never tolerate fighting a war near its own territory.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 9:31 PM

    @Roger Bond: That’s because we all have guns.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 10:06 PM

    @Roger Bond: now we will see American will try to sell gas to Europe this winter

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    Jul 12th 2022, 10:10 PM

    @Godknows: Hmm. And here I thought Russia started the war. Must be mistaken. Surely no one would be Putin’s lap dog.

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    Jul 12th 2022, 10:37 PM

    @Steven C. Schulz: Wake up!

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    Jul 13th 2022, 1:08 PM

    This makes European exports to USA so much cheaper and more competitive to other products and markets. This is only the problem with imports.

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