Niamh Towey

Niamh Towey

Niamh Towey is an Irish Times journalist.

The budget bet big on apartments. Will it help fix the housing crisis?

Four experts – a builder, an architect, an economist and a policy expert – weigh in on measures contained in Budget 2026

Residents living beside proposed development claim submissions to Dublin council ‘selectively redacted’

Tuath Housing Association is seeking permission to build 463 homes in Ballymun

‘Nobody came to our door to tell us’: Dublin grandmother discovers plan to demolish home

New 463-unit development is planned by Tuath Housing Association

Tax incentives for developers announced in bid to boost housing supply

Minister says building more homes is ‘absolute priority’, but first-time buyers see little change regarding affordability

‘Nothing in Budget for people like me’: A renter’s verdict

Lack of help with cost of living and failure to increase rent tax credit gives tenants little to cheer

This is a budget for developers, but what do renters, landlords and house hunters get?

Supports in place kept on but Government’s key focus shifts to developers

‘There’s no way I will be able to buy a house’: What people want from Budget 2026

A renter, a landlord, a teacher, a farmer, a pensioner, a business owner share their views

From €70m tag for mooted museum to overcharging for emergency accommodation: Six things we learned from C&AG report

Comptroller and Auditor General says TB infection rates in cattle rising despite €100m eradication scheme

Galway students face 18% rise in private accommodation costs

Residential Tenancies Board says rent pressure zone rules apply irrespective of length of tenancy

Irish Rail to remove gender titles from online train booking system

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Government spending on social housing ‘socially problematic’ and poor value, TDs told

Oireachtas Committee told ‘boom-bust’ pattern of spending deeply problematic

Families at risk of homelessness may have another chance to avail of tenant-in-situ scheme

Minister for Housing tells local authorities they can proceed with more acquisitions of properties

People who work should get priority for social housing, says Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy

Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin says there is ‘no legal basis’ for Minister of State’s suggestion

Tipperary pensioner who died after assault remembered as having a ‘heart of gold’

Teddy Murnane had a ‘great way of connecting with people’, his funeral Mass hears in Tipperary town

DCU should reconsider on-campus student rent hikes, says Minister

James Lawless asks university to justify rise in service charges covering utilities on campus

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