As rents reach new peak, experts says situation likely to get worse before getting better

Children and women are worst hit by a society whose policies refuse to cherish all its people equally

Tasc report indicates that women and children bore the brunt of recessionary years

Ireland has an emergency and the new Minister for Housing is promising a powerful response. What’s at stake?

We need rent control and a larger plan to deliver social housing

Sidelights of Irish political life: Car parks, farm lanes and enduring absence from home

Characterisations of the election result as groundbreaking do not reflect reality

For all the Left-wing celebration, a move to old ways leaves Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil brass neck and brass neck

More than half of income gains have gone to top 10% of earners

System will only be fixed when housing is treated as a home and not a speculative investment asset or commodity

Peter McVerry says Minister for Environment can’t solve problem on his own

The official line was that the Irish don’t protest. But that changed with the bailout, the recession and the water charges. How might those demonstrations affect Ireland’s next general election?

Right2Water protests similar to Bolivia’s ‘Water War’, says leading international expert

Minister disagrees many water protesters were Labour supporters at last election

Work begins on controversial €600 million Poolbeg project

Discussions under way to procure funding for retro-fit of thousands of flats in Dublin, Cork and Limerick