One-off rural housing guidelines set to be overhauled
Anti-poverty initiative reports 0.7 per cent drop in child poverty from 2024 to 2025
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Hare coursing should not need to be debated, just ended
If ever there was a case for a conscience vote in the Dáil, this is it
Pharmacists in Ireland would be allowed prescribe contraception under proposed new law
Increased borrowing limit for Housing Finance Agency and plans for AI Gigafactory also on Cabinet agenda
Home commencement levels fall to rate last recorded in 2020
Housing minister James Browne has says figures for May 2026 point towards ‘strong momentum’
Minister has ‘no difficulty’ with powers for cities to introduce tourism tax
Nightly levy has been considered in Dublin, but would require a change at national level
Apartment subsidy scheme has spent 70% of budget on just half of its housing target
The €450m Croí Cónaithe (Cities) scheme aimed to deliver 5,000 apartments for homebuyers by 2026
Ireland’s new short-term let rules: how likely are they to work?
Observers say enforcement is required to make new rules work and more homes available to long-term renters
‘Emergency response’ to homeless crisis, including possible no-fault evictions ban, needed, says committee
More than 17,500 people, including 5,604 children, were in emergency accommodation in April, latest figures show
New ribbon development expected to bring 50% increase in one-off housing builds
New planning guidelines for rural Ireland to be approved, Tánaiste Simon Harris tells Fine Gael meeting
Derelict site tax: The Revenue Commissioners taking on local politics won’t end well
Local politicians will still have a say in who get gets subjected to the derelict site tax
Councils to be backed by Government when pursuing permissions geared to aid home building
Housing infrastructure fund selected projects which Minister described as ‘shovel-ready’
Ireland to introduce some of Europe’s ‘strictest’ rules on short-term lets, says Minister
Register for Airbnb-style lets being created with view to force homes out of holiday market and in to private rental sector
Councils will be under ‘Damocles sword’ to use €1bn housing fund before it is withdrawn
More than 80 projects across most local authority areas will ‘directly’ lead to 86,000 new homes, Government claims
Residential Tenancies Board chairman Owen Keegan resigns, two years into five-year term
Former DCC chief said he has ‘done my bit’ at renting watchdog
Controversial new apartment standards open for public consultation amid legal challenge
Environmental impact report published after its absence was highlighted in legal case
Habitat destruction in Ireland almost doubles without any increase in prosecutions
Figures raise questions over staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service, says TD
Developer facing jail benefited from Minister’s planning ruling on same day as sentencing
Sligo developer Cathal O’Connor faces two years in prison for violent assault on three teenagers
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
Lidl’s claims of planning system exploitation ‘factually inaccurate’, says competitor
Owner of McInerney’s SuperValu Loughrea claims to have ‘legitimate legal argument’
Lidl claims planning system is being exploited by rival
Supermarket chain wants measures similar to fast-tracking of large infrastructure projects
The Irish Times view on the Government’s data centre argument: how not to make the case
The figures earnestly recited by Minister for Finance Simon Harris deserve scrutiny
School holidays ‘highly challenging’ for thousands of homeless children as rates rise again
Weekly snapshot does not consider overcrowded housing, refuges, couch-surfing, sleeping rough or IPAS
‘Absolutely traumatising’: Ireland sees surge in arson attacks on council homes
‘New epidemic’ affecting communities while costing local authorities millions of euro
John Magnier and JP McManus could see rich returns if €4m Liffey Valley lands are rezoned
Council chief recommends 16 hectares of protected lands at St Edmundsbury, Lucan, be rezoned for housing
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
Why are rents in Ireland at record levels?
Increase in rents has coincided with Government’s new rent control system coming into force in March
Taoiseach called ‘slíbhín’ for defence of changes to rental system amid record rent hikes
Micheál Martin accuses Mary Lou McDonald of ‘empty rhetoric, no solutions’ during testy exchanges and heckling in Dáil
‘We must see action’: Resolution of Oliver Bond flats regeneration impasse expected in coming weeks
Minister for Housing James Browne says conditions in inner city complex ‘absolutely atrocious, totally unacceptable’
These figures tell the real story of Fianna Fáil’s impact on housing
In 2020, about half of all houses appeared in an estate agent’s window for sale; in 2025, that figure was fewer than one in three
Planned short-term letting register delayed by six months
Plans have been the subject of much internal Government debate
‘Two of the kids can’t stay overnight’: Mother of seven on her overcrowded Dublin council flat
Dublin woman, who shares a bed with three of her sons, says she has been waiting for a bigger council house for 14 years
Cork’s Counting House complex to house new city library after €35m purchase
Former Beamish and Crawford site will replace existing Grand Parade library, which opened in 1930
The Irish Times view on Oliver Bond House: State has a moral obligation
Residents are entitled to something better than an endless cycle of deferred promises
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