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Sat 10 Oct 2008The credit wolves at the door
Banks breathed a sigh of relief last week, but now people whose homes and businesses are at risk from the credit crunch face a relentless financial sector, writes Carl O'Brienand Ruadhán MacCormaic.
EVERY DAY the panic, fear and desperation of the credit crisis tumbles through the doors of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (Mabs) in Navan, Co Meath and into the office of Tommy Curran. "There are a lot of people under severe pressure, but they don't want anyone to know. They are just too ashamed," says Curran, the organisation's co-ordinator.
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