Chav Cock, or how God tells Englishmen to steal Irish homes

This man is called Guy Chave-Cox. He is behaving like both a chav and a cock, thereby fulfilling the demands of his preposterous surnames.

He is also a vicar, and hence allegedly a religious gentleman of the Christian faith. But this has not prevented him from seeking to claim the homes of people in Sligo as his own.

The back story is available from the Irish Indo here, but to keep it short, his people, the Middletons, left Ireland some 90 years ago, never to return. They held land that was likely originally stolen by the British crown from Irish people and given illegally to their antecedents anyway.

In the Seventies, with the intention of sorting out land ownership, the people affected worked to trace the Middleton heirs and offered them hundreds of quid for the ground ownership. Having secured their properties, this all went to bed. They should not have had to do this, of course. All colonial claims to Irish land by non-residents ought to have been revoked upon independence.

Or so people thought till the boul vicar, a Middleton heir, along with his wife Heather, decided to try to lay claim to some properties that had not been resolved in the Seventies.

Here now is a true test of the Irish state and Irish judiciary. Clearly this man, who has no connection whatsoever to Ireland, has no reasonable claim to these properties. Yet he has issued eviction notices to people who have lived there all their lives.

The only rational response is to throw his claim out of court and charge him a fortune in damages for his malicious suit. Anything short of that, and you can reasonably conclude that the 'Republic of Ireland' and its judiciary are about as free and independent as Iraq.