Niamh Towey

Niamh Towey

Niamh Towey is an Irish Times journalist.

Family ‘angry and frightened’ after being locked out of affordable housing for second time

Homes in Barrackfield West development start at €243,477 for a one-bedroom apartment, with three-bedroom homes priced at €365,216

Weather Ireland: Heavy rain forecast for next week as Met Éireann issues warning

Status yellow rain warning issued from Monday night until Tuesday midday

Infrastructure court challenges could be restricted under new proposals

Government to examine measures aimed at introducing higher threshold for pursuing judicial review cases

Terence Crosbie case: Firefighters, nurses and former teacher among 80 who wrote character letters

Appeals for leniency submitted to Boston court in advance of seven year minimum sentence

The Housing Crisis and Me: Can anything be done to fix this runaway train?

Government unveiled a plan to end homelessness by 2016, but things have only got worse

Dublin firefighter Terence Crosbie sentenced to at least seven years for rape in Boston

Crosbie committed an act of ‘extraordinary sexual violence’, says judge

‘Is it really worth this much?’: How costs spiralled on a couple’s derelict home renovation

The Housing Crisis & Me: Ed Williams (40) and Alannah Horne (36) used vacant property funding on Dublin home

Couple apply to build log cabin after failing to find rented home within €1,600 monthly budget

The Housing Crisis & Me: Aiva Tuohy and partner Dylan Tone, in their 20s, say they feel ‘forgotten’ by Government

‘There’s no other option’: Leitrim woman’s commute went from six minutes to six hours

The Housing Crisis & Me: Martha Gilheaney did not think it would be possible to buy anywhere in the country, let alone Dublin

Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Leitrim named Tidy Towns winner for 2025

Rosscarbery, Co Cork, Dalkey in Co Dublin, and Tralee, Co Kerry, among winners

Catherine Connolly confirms she used parliamentary allowance on trip to Syria in 2018

Humphreys ‘sorry’ if mother of hit-and-run victim feels she did not do enough for family; Connolly says former prisoner she employed in Dáil was recommended by Éamon Ó’Cuív

Fota Wildlife Park in Cork to close temporarily over suspected bird flu

Contagious disease spreads among poultry, wild birds and pet ones, but is rare in humans

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

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