Tens of thousands of homes expected to follow new public infrastructure projects
The Oireachtas housing committee heard 138 applications were made for funding aimed at unlocking zoned land
Housing crisis
Couple buying first home miss out on Help to Buy refund of up to €30k after alleged typo
Tax Appeals Commissioner dismisses appeal where couple claim tax relief was withheld over a single ‘typo’ in valuer’s letter
How to pay off your mortgage as quickly and painlessly as possible
Better with Money with Aideen Finnegan
Controversial new apartment standards open for public consultation amid legal challenge
Environmental impact report published after its absence was highlighted in legal case
Home-building slowed sharply last month, Irish construction firms say
The rate of decline accelerated to its fastest rate since October, report from AIB shows
Ireland not producing enough surveyors to deliver National Development Plan, report says
Shortfall of 2,200-plus graduates over coming four years will hinder infrastructure projects and housebuilding, SCSI warns
Michael Bailey firm contests Fingal council demand for €1m financial contribution over plan for 530 new homes
Fingal County Council granted planning permission last month for 530 apartments and one creche at Barrysparks and Crowscastle, Swords
Sex-for-rent demands in Ireland: ‘You can sleep with me or I’m not going to help you’
Maria’s story is a snapshot of the situations many international students, migrants and women face in Ireland’s ‘precarious’ housing market
Residents facing eviction from retirement village given 11th-hour extension
Speculation that move by landlord follows change to rental laws that guarantee minimum six-year tenancies
Singer-songwriter Loah: ‘I like praying. It puts you in a humble state, open to the goodness of people’
As Loah releases her debut album, the singer-songwriter talks about her multifaceted career, making rural west Cork her home and embracing her faith
Dooneen: In Keith Ridgway’s retrofuturistic Dublin, the housing crisis plays out with deadly consequences
Compelling novel about hope, dereliction and the unmercifulness of privilege is set in a city that is both recognisable and weirdly unfamiliar
Debut novelist Jessamine O’Connor: ‘Trying fiction was really refreshing. I have been doing poetry for 20 years’
The writer on her housing-crisis novel Somewhere, her collaborative work, and playing Countdown in the pub
Stefan Al’s spirited account of what humans have got right and wrong when making homes
Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home by Stefan Al
Central Bank of Ireland’s Sandyford site unlikely to be developed for housing for a decade
Annual report also reveals bank made €104.6 million loss in 2025 but saw the value of its gold holdings soar to €1.42 billion
Oliver Bond residents are suffering the slow violence of State neglect
A constitutional right to housing would give residents of the inner-city Dublin complex a tool to pursue their rights
Kennedy Wilson partners with Dutch pensions player APG on €2bn Irish residential venture
Joint venture will develop and manage more than 3,400 build-to-rent homes at four key sites in Dublin
Rules must accommodate nature while building 50,000 homes a year
Plans for 300,000 housing units by 2030 could be hugely destructive to biodiversity. Supporting long-term ecological resilience is critical
Ireland’s reliance on US multinational tax take ‘poses risks’, European Commission warns
Corporate tax receipts from US companies well in excess of what could be explained by their domestic economic activity in Republic
Twice as hard to afford a home in Dublin as Belfast, new CSO data shows
Report comparing economies North and South shows greater earnings mean taxes on income are higher in the Republic
Ireland’s housing statistics are meaningless without wider context
The State remains focused on abstract output figures that are disconnected from lived reality
Builders wait on State to seek bids for infrastructure projects
More detail needed on €270bn plan, says industry chief
Make Strange by Niamh Campbell: Haunting portrayal of maternal anxiety nested in an unnerving premise
There’s a lot going on in this novel, so much so that the main plot is in danger of being sidelined
‘Very disturbing’: How Ireland’s far right has opened new front by targeting Dublin’s council homes
The far right is hijacking anger on working-class Dublin estates over a shortage of council houses by vandalising vacant properties
Harris pushes back on claim Irish housing crisis among ‘most severe’ in Europe
Housing poses challenge across EU, Harris says at turning of sod on 410-home scheme in Cork
Are Sinn Féin drifting away from an uneasy left-wing alliance?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Strong start to 2026 for Ires as new rent rules come into effect
Demand for rental accommodation remains strong
Why we are making more progress on housing today than before
Over the last 10 years, 250,000 homes were built in the State
Taoiseach was wrong to dismiss comparisons with famine-era evictions. Here’s why
At a time when evictions have surpassed 19th-century levels, it is ill-advised to suggest lessons can’t be learned from the past
Irish house prices to increase by ‘more sedate’ 4% in 2026, says Bank of Ireland
New homes drive market as affordability remains ‘stretched’ and second-hand sales continue to decline
The ‘Taj Mahal of dereliction’: A ghost estate on the outskirts of Castlebar, Co Mayo
Twenty years after the Waterways estate was granted permission, it remains an unfinished, unresolved memento of the Celtic Tiger
Couple ordered to return part of deposit after charging tenants for new carpets aimed at boosting value
Landlords Gerard and Margaret Ryan found to have unlawfully retained €1,910 from the deposit
When dinner in Dublin costs about the same as Switzerland, how do the Irish afford it?
I ended up in Switzerland by accident, with a view of the Matterhorn from my window
Housing crisis: Grants to turn space above shops into homes could be ‘game changer’
Government hopes grants of up to €165,000 will mean thousands of vacant properties return to use
Planning rules for one-off housing to be eased under new proposals
Changes will be a ‘loosening’ of current restrictions but ‘not a free for all’, Government source says
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