Chris Macmanus

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‘Airbnb and similar short-term rental platforms have driven up rents, hurt urban communities, and ravaged affordable social housing programmes. ’ Photograph: John Mac Dougall/AFP/Getty Images
Airbnb's Irish base frustrates rules in other EU cities – report

Online rental company Airbnb uses its status as an Irish-registered company to frustrate attempts by local authorities in European capitals to curb di(...)

Sinn Féin’s Martin Kenny TD canvassing Karen Dockery from Annaghduff, Co Leitrim, in Carrick-on-Shannon. Photograph: Brian Farrell
Election 2020: Kenny believes his stand on immigration will not affect his chances

Children from 33 nationalities attend Scoil Mhuire primary school in Carrick-on-Shannon, the town where Iraqi-born youngster Zak Moradi learned how to(...)

Maeve’s Cairn: megalithic tomb on a limestone mountain in Co Sligo
Hikers putting 5,000-year-old Co Sligo cairn at risk

One of Sligo’s best-known landmarks, reputed to be Queen’s Maeve’s grave, on the summit of Knocknarea, is being put at risk by increased volumes of wa(...)

Fianna Fáil’s Eamon Scanlon.
Sligo-Leitrim: Fianna Fáil takes two seats as Eamon Scanlon returns

Fianna Fáil has won two seats in the Sligo-Leitrim constituency where in the last election they took none. Senator Marc MacSharry topped the poll an(...)