On Tuesday April 26, 2016 masked bailiffs wearing black caps and dark clothing turned up at Hynes Jewellers on North Main Street in Wexford. The men were posted at the door as the county sheriff moved in to execute a Circuit Court order in favour of the landlords, solicitors Val Stone and Catherine Stack, who had won a court claim they were owed €50,000 in rent, rates and damages for trespass. Locks were changed. Stock was seized. The Wexford People newspaper carried a photograph of the bailiffs and a comprehensive report on the raid, which noted local people’s shock at…

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