4 days ago
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- Irish Daily Mirror
Daughter of elderly woman fights for family home after derelict site notice
The daughter of an elderly woman who has been served a derelict site notice said it's "heartbreaking" that the five-generation family home could be repossessed.
Ally Maye says her mother Margaret Maye, 71, received the notice from Waterford County Council last week after years of battling to maintain the property.
Two years ago, Ms Maye received her first warning from the council that the site needed to be cleaned up.
Since then, devastated Ally said they have been "back and forth" with the council on how to stop the home from being repossessed. 08/08/2025. Pictured is Ally Maye at Keating street Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Photograph: Patrick Browne
She told The Irish Mirror: "It's been our family home since 1942, it was my great grandparents' originally.
"It was a base for my whole family, cousins and everything.
"[My mother] called me really upset that An Bord Pleanala granted permission to the council to obtain the house.
"So we rang the council and they gave us so many weeks to get some jobs done and if we do they will extend that, without the GoFundMe we are hitting a brick wall, we can't go further. We had applied for the refurbishment grant for €80,000 but you have to pay for everything up front before you are given the grant, so that was a dead end for us."
Ally has set up an online fundraiser, hoping to raise €60,000 to repair the house so it isn't repossessed.
As of last night, it had raised less than €2,700.
Her mother Margaret has been paying for private rental accommodation for the past eight years, as her home is unliveable.
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