1: Tracking the trackers
It is hard to imagine there was a time when a man could stand up on a bus even a man in an ad and admit to not knowing what a tracker was. Over the past 10 years everyone has learned what a tracker is, not least because the mortgages have been at the centre of the worst consumer rip-off in the history of the State, according to Fianna Fáil finance spokesman Michael McGrath.
In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a tracker mortgage scandal saw 30,000 homeowners wrongly forced off the discounted loans by unscrupulous banks op…
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