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Landlord who threatened to take tenant ‘by the head’ and remove her from property ordered to pay €17,500

A landlord who threatened to take his tenant “by the head” and remove her from a property “if necessary” has been ordered to pay €17,500 in damages by a Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) tribunal.

A hearing held in March was told how the tenant and her two children were evicted “on to the street” and left homeless after the landlord changed the locks of the property in Limerick city in August.

News in Ireland

• Online racist abuse of sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke condemned: Hate speech directed on social media towards European champion athlete Rhasidat Adeleke is “another wake-up call” for Ireland, Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI) has said.
• Potato shortages: ‘The way the weather is going, it’s a bit frightening’: “I’ve never seen anything like it in 35 years, I’ve never seen such a shortage,” says Dan Horan, owner of Horan’s Fruit and Veg in Tralee and Killarney, Co Kerry.
• Far right using ‘mask of protester’, claims Higgins: President Michael D Higgins has added his voice to growing concerns around the nature of far-right protests in the Republic, singling out those who targeted public libraries and their staff in recent years.
• Amazon raises doubt over ‘capacity to expand’ in Republic: Online retail giant Amazon raised doubts about its “capacity to expand” its cloud computing presence in Ireland during recent lobbying of the Government because of difficulties connecting new data centres to the electricity grid.
• Weather Forecast: A little cloudy this morning with some patchy drizzle in the north but some early bright spells further south. Sunny and largely dry weather will develop later this afternoon. Highest temperatures of 14 to 18 degrees. Tonight will see a mix of cloudy periods and clear spells tonight with a light northerly breeze. A few light showers will drift in overnight but most areas will stay dry. Lowest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees.
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World

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Your Money

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Opinion

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Business

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Sports

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Property

• Cash only, please: why you can’t buy some properties if you need a mortgage: When a property goes to market seeking a cash-only buyer, it’s sometimes down to construction, planning and boundary issues.

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