Who owns Grafton Street? Wealthy Irish families and faceless funds control 119 of Dublin’s most valuable buildingsFrom large pension funds to wealthy private investors, the owners of Dublin’s most famous shopping street enjoy large rent rolls from some of the biggest names in the Irish retail sectorMon Apr 01 2024 - 06:00
Wealthy Irish families buy up Grafton Street property from investment fundsLimerick billionaire JP McManus, founder of Panda waste collection Eamon Waters and the Brennan family among owners on Grafton StreetMon Apr 01 2024 - 00:00
Woman in her 30s dies and four others injured in Tipperary road crashTwo car collision also saw man in his 40s and three teenagers taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuriesSat Mar 30 2024 - 12:57
Government ‘cashing in’ on fuel price rises, Aontú leader saysIncrease in excise due on Monday is to be followed by further increases in AugustThu Mar 28 2024 - 17:56
Illegal sales of bodybuilding steroids, Botox and cancer-causing fake tan drugs on the rise, latest data indicatesAmong products seized by HPRA last year were sedatives, erectile disfunction and weight loss drugsThu Mar 28 2024 - 13:46
Family Courts Bill will create ‘two-tier’ system for people seeking divorce or legal separation, say barristersHaving cases where family home is worth less than €1m heard in District Court will create ‘summary’ system for less well-offThu Mar 21 2024 - 06:00
Asylum seekers told to pitch tents ‘anywhere on the mountain’ in Crooksling return to Dublin city centreMen were told to pack belongings before 8am on Saturday morning, with cleaners on site by 10.30amSat Mar 16 2024 - 17:52
Asylum seeker camp in Dublin clearedThe International Protection Accommodation Services cleared all the tents on Mount Street - while being offered new accommodation in tents at Crooksling.Sat Mar 16 2024 - 16:37
Landlord Marc Godart engages senior counsel to fight former tenant in High Court over €15,000 debtCase involving nonpayment of debt to former tenant not properly before court, counsel for Green Label Short Lets Ltd saysFri Mar 15 2024 - 14:54
Wealthy Chinese buyers snapping up south Dublin homes ‘sight unseen’Attraction of south Dublin fee-paying schools is driving interest in the area among ‘top-tier’ business families in China, says Dublin agentSat Mar 09 2024 - 06:00
‘You feel it is inflating property values’: south Dublin homes targeted by rich Chinese buyersSurge in applications from Chinese multimillionaires to live in Ireland coincides with increase in live streamed viewings of Dublin propertiesSat Mar 09 2024 - 06:00
British agents inside Provisional IRA knowingly killed others in organisation, Kenova report findsThose inside PIRA who gave information ‘significantly degraded and debilitated the effectiveness of terrorist groups’Fri Mar 08 2024 - 18:27
Metrolink compensation cap rises to €75,000 after criticism of ‘inadequate’ fundConservation specialist to carry out surveys on qualifying properties, with commercial properties includedWed Mar 06 2024 - 15:26
Marc Godart: Landlord’s company pleads guilty to breach of fire safety law at Dublin propertyCity centre property used for short-term letting was a ‘potentially dangerous’ according to fire safety noticeTue Mar 05 2024 - 11:55
‘An appalling litany of behaviour’: Judge says Marc Godart firm’s treatment of tenant ‘completely unacceptable’Legal team for former tenant want Godart and parents ordered to answer questions in court about company’s failure to pay compensationTue Mar 05 2024 - 06:00
Landlord Marc Godart says all Irish revenue has to be sent to Luxembourg as part of family corporate structureJudge says Godart will have to answer questions about transfer of funds from Irish company to parent company in LuxembourgTue Mar 05 2024 - 05:00
Marc Godart tenants evicted from building in Suffolk Street, DublinCommercial tenants rented rooms from a front company set up by Godart that had its registered address in the Dublin 2 premisesThu Feb 29 2024 - 19:34
President calls on countries that have cut off aid to Palestinian refugee agency to change their mindsCatastrophe in Gaza can be avoided, says Michael D Higgins, who praised Government’s decision to increase aid to UnrwaMon Feb 26 2024 - 21:38
Two companies run by landlord Marc Godart lodged all their income via ATMs in DublinRecent filings by GL Real Invest and Mobile Homes Phoenix Park are one-page documents that simply list income and expenditure for the yearMon Feb 26 2024 - 19:00
Gardaí investigating after body of elderly man found in Co KerryMan pronounced dead at scene after gardaí called to Castlemaine residence on Sunday morningSun Feb 25 2024 - 20:01
Firm linked to jailed ex-solicitor Michael Lynn negotiated €10m deal involving State agencyState money was to have funded apartment development in Dublin by man whose home was raided by gardaí in JanuarySat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
Michael Lynn’s family living in house owned by company set up just months before purchaseWife of jailed former solicitor is understood to be living in the house in Brittas that was sold two years ago for almost half a million euroTue Feb 20 2024 - 10:00
Gardaí believe Michael Lynn used stolen cash for money-laundering scheme after return to IrelandSprawling investigation culminated last month in searches of five properties, including Lynn’s family home, by armed gardaíTue Feb 20 2024 - 05:00
Former solicitor Michael Lynn sentenced to five and a half years for theft of €17.9mLawyer for accused said client’s time in Brazilian prison left him with PTSD due to violence witnessed, including a decapitationMon Feb 19 2024 - 16:31
Marc Godart and the law: Landlord and property letting agent facing range of criminal and civil court casesFour of the ten Dublin city properties issued with fire safety notices last year were associated with GodartSat Feb 17 2024 - 07:00
The Healy-Raes of Kerry and their multimillion-euro business empireThe politician brothers have substantial business interests in Kerry and business connections with State bodiesSat Feb 10 2024 - 07:00
Associate of Michael Lynn accused of refusing to comply with search warrantYavor Poptoshev allegedly refused to disclose passwords for three electronic devices to An Garda SíochánaTue Feb 06 2024 - 13:25
The poetry of hope — Colm Keena on the Irish Uyghur Cultural AssociationUyghurs living in Ireland live with a level of trauma and fear that is hard to imagineMon Feb 05 2024 - 18:59
Anti-immigrant march and counter protest in Dublin see 300 gardaí deployedAnti-immigrant protesters passed close to counter-protesters who labelled them ‘Nazis’ and ‘scum’Mon Feb 05 2024 - 18:29
Six top-earning presenters in RTÉ use companies to charge for their servicesThe station’s highest-paid presenter in 2022, according to figures published by the national broadcaster, was former host Ryan TubridyMon Jan 29 2024 - 15:45
Landlord Marc Godart may be ordered to High Court to explain why company has not paid debt to ex-tenantLizet Pena-Herrera has not received RTB awards totalling €15,443Mon Jan 29 2024 - 13:40
ATM blackspots: Why the Government wants to ensure nobody has to travel more than 10km for cashCash is here to stay, says Minister for Finance, as Government seeks to ensure people can continue to access cashSat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Launch of Irish Uyghur cultural association attended by World Uyghur Congress president‘I came to Ireland but still I was living with fear. I never could say what I was really experiencing’, says co-founder Nuria ZydenFri Jan 26 2024 - 20:05
ESRI study of ableism finds differences across disabilitiesStudy finds general view that prejudice is unacceptable but that ableism is influenced by disability typeTue Jan 23 2024 - 00:01
Oliver Callan to take over Ryan Tubridy’s former RTÉ radio slot for €150,000 a yearSatirist will continue his weekly comedy programme in addition to new roleSat Jan 20 2024 - 14:22
Landlords’ decade of tax evasion undone by ‘good citizen’ report on rent collection High Court upheld Revenue bill for more than €3m in outstanding tax and interest against Paul Howard and Una McCleanSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Landlord Paul Howard told Revenue he kept rent money at home in cashTax judgments of more than €3 million have been confirmed against Howard and his partner, who had tenants pay their rent in cash at a launderette on Dublin’s Talbot StreetThu Jan 18 2024 - 06:00
Landlord Marc Godart accused of using three properties for short-term lets without required permissionCase of businessman from Luxembourg to be heard before Dublin District Court in AprilTue Jan 16 2024 - 12:55
‘You are advised to vacate this building immediately’: safety notices served on Marc Godart flatsApartments in Capel Street are let on a short-term basis where beds in a shared room are being offered from €11.16 per nightMon Jan 15 2024 - 06:30
Under the eye of landlord Marc Godart: how a tenant who objected to CCTV surveillance was evictedMexican tenant Salvador Chavez Morales complained about a camera trained on the kitchen of his Dublin rental, part of the property business of controversial Luxembourg landlord Marc GodartSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
Health board told of multiple instances of ‘inappropriate’ behaviour by Bill KenneallyTribunal is told convicted paedophile used to offer boys alcohol, money and lifts in his car.Fri Jan 12 2024 - 16:26
Former Fianna Fáil TD disputes journalist’s note of 2016 conversationInquiry into response to allegations against convicted paedophile Bill Kenneally hears evidence about conversation in car park in 2016Wed Jan 10 2024 - 16:04
Former Fine Gael politician confirms guilty pleas on money laundering chargesFormer Longford councillor charged with offences involving property with total value of €2.6mTue Jan 09 2024 - 18:17
Former Garda inspector Gerry O’Carroll ‘loved every second’ of his career, funeral service hearsFormer garda, who was involved in numerous high-profile investigations, was ‘formidable giant of a man’, brother tells serviceSat Jan 06 2024 - 18:40
Michael Lowry says costs dispute with Moriarty tribunal settled more than decade after final reportTipperary TD, who was criticised in tribunal report, said his representation costs amounted to €2.8 millionSat Jan 06 2024 - 17:40
Entrepreneur and energy supergrid promoter Eddie O’Connor diesFormer chief executive of Bord na Móna went from being Ireland’s ‘leading polluter’ to a prominent promoter of renewable energySat Jan 06 2024 - 15:48
Woman who was left nothing in father’s will loses appeal against costs orderDaughter lodged caveat delaying processing of will of her father, who drew up a new will just a month before he diedThu Jan 04 2024 - 19:48
Trust that owns Christian Brothers schools included as defendant in historical child sex abuse casesSolicitors say taking of cases against the trust, which has property worth €133 million, is response to legal strategy being adopted by congregationThu Jan 04 2024 - 06:17
Man (20) from Co Clare dies in Christmas road crash in New ZealandTim O’Dwyer (20) was alone when his vehicle crashed early on Christmas Day in New ZealandThu Dec 28 2023 - 16:59
