This week’s floods highlight the failure of successive governments on issue
Inside Politics: Housing completion figures offer some good news for Coalition
Change to draft laws could speed up ‘life-saving’ works in defective apartments
Recommendations made in Oireachtas Committee report on scheme to remediate defective apartments and duplexes
Ban on use of scramblers in public places being planned following teenager’s death
Coalition also plans to introduce ‘far tighter’ regulations on e-scooters and e-bikes, source says
Small landlords can issue eviction notice at any time under new rules if selling to pay debts
Debt will not have to be in arrears in order to qualify as evidence of landlord being in financial hardship
Simon Harris slams ‘vulgar’ Trump as Taoiseach plays it safe in contrast of rhetoric
Micheál Martin more cautious than Tánaiste in commenting on US board of peace plan
Paschal Donohoe ignored bank levy advice from officials that would have benefited PTSB
Levy put in place during 2014 to recover funds injected by State into banking sector during financial crisis
Equality safeguards in International Protection Bill remain ‘unclear’, watchdog says
Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission responding to publication of full International Protection Bill
Opposition parties refuse to sign off housing committee report examining Government’s plans
Parties dissent from housing committee’s report scrutinising draft laws reforming rental sector
Ireland could see ‘electricity shortage event’ in next two to five years, regulator warns
Predicted expansion in demand ‘largely attributed to growth in data centre loads’, notes commission’s analysis
‘An affront to basic dignity’: historic convictions for same-sex activity to be expunged
Minister for Justice will amend legislation to exonerate people convicted before homosexuality was decriminalised in 1993
Macron accuses Trump of trying to ‘subordinate’ Europe in pursuit of Greenland
EU leaders preparing diplomatic blitz in Davos to lobby US president to retract Greenland and tariff threats
EU faces possibility of ‘entire breakdown’ in transatlantic relationship, Tánaiste says
Bloc’s leaders prepare diplomatic blitz to lobby Donald Trump to row back on Greenland, tariff threats
EU leaders scramble to calibrate response to Trump threats
Required majority of national governments appear not to favour unleashing the trade ‘bazooka’ – yet
RTÉ’s departing chief financial officer joins listed landlord Ires Reit in same role
Mari Hurley took up the role in August 2024 after a controversy over payments at the broadcaster
Ministers seeking clarification on pension overpayment errors after recession ‘salary sacrifice’
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty claims Ministers ‘holding out’ and that behaviour is ‘absolutely unacceptable’