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Despite the assertive engagement of the intake teams and by medics working with the Safetynet charity, a number of people chose to continue to sleep outdoors during the heaviest snowfalls in March. Photograph: Frank Miller / The Irish Times
More than 300 extra beds for homeless will open in Dublin

More than 300 extra emergency beds will open across Dublin in the coming weeks to cater for homeless people over Christmas and New Year. The addition(...)

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair is scheduled to speak Web Summit in Lisbon. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire
This Week in Business: Blair to address Web Summit Lisbon

Monday Results: Mylan, Avadel Pharmaceuticals, Taro Pharmaceuticals, Avis Budget, Ferrari, Marriott International. Indicators: Irish services purcha(...)

As well as the Carrickmines development, Victoria Homes has acquired sites in Dublin 14, 16 and 18 and has plans to build more than 2,500 housing units. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Victoria Homes doubles number of homes planned for Carrickmines site to 1,500

House builder Victoria Homes has expanded the planning application for its site in Carrickmines, south Co Dublin, to include up to 1,500 homes. This (...)

Betty Maher (102): “I would advise people to keep active and have a hobby” Photograph: Dave Meehan for The Irish Times
To age well, keep your mind and body active

If all the advice on healthy ageing could be encapsulated into one short sentence, it would be to “keep your mind and body active”. Even people suffe(...)

GPs and specialist family planning services are concerned that routing a free contraceptive scheme via pharmacies would limit women’s contraceptive choices and risk side-lining some of the most effective methods available, such as hormonal implants or the coil. Photograph: iStock
Why contraception isn’t just about condoms and the pill

The Minister for Health’s proposals to introduce a free contraception scheme after the abortion referendum is positive news for everyone. Internationa(...)

Official data and, particularly, anecdotal evidence suggests that Dublin prices, at least, have stopped rising. Photograph: Alan Betson
Chris Johns: Stalling house prices are a good thing

Housing and house prices are a problem in many – perhaps most – major economies. Policies to deal with this are often easy to design but fiendishly di(...)

Molly Twomey: “An eating disorder is a coping mechanism for everything you’ve suppressed and it was very difficult to feel all the pain and heartbreak that I’d used my eating disorder to cope with.” Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
What lies beneath: The difficulty of facing up to an eating disorder

It’s damaging to have too strict a definition of an eating disorder. So says Molly Twomey, a 22-year-old student who has blogged about her experience (...)

Starting a new school can be both an exciting and anxious time. Photograph: iStock
First year in secondary school: a survival guide

Beginning secondary school is one of the landmark moments in a child’s life, but new beginnings can bring both excitement and anxieties for incoming f(...)

Queuing for a rental property in Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Average rents reach all-time high of €1,304 per month

Average rent across the Republic reached yet another peak of €1,304, more than €560 higher than the trough in 2011 and more than 26 per cent higher th(...)

A false widow spider. File photograph
Alien killer spider eats native lizard in first recorded Irish case

Fears have been expressed for the future of Ireland’s only native lizard species after a specimen was found to have been eaten by an alien killer spid(...)

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