One of Cork’s biggest bars is hoping to reopen for outdoor dining in March following optimistic sentiments from Tánaiste Leo Varadkar regarding Q2. The comments from the Tánaiste were made at Tuesday’s briefing announcing an extension of the level five restrictions until March 5. Speaking at the briefing Mr Varadkar said he knew businesses wanted

IT’S an issue brimming under the stream of news about Covid but which is threatening to become a major ­problem — Northern Ireland. Since new Brexit rules took effect, the North has been thrown into existential crisis. Veteran politicians from the Tories and Labour have sounded the alarm that British unity is under threat. 4

The Simon Communities have warned that a persistent and chronic lack of affordable housing supply will continue to drive some people into homelessness. Launching its latest Locked Out report, which looks at the availability of housing for people on rental supports, the Simon Communities found just four properties were available within standard housing assistance payment

Image: Shutterstock Image: Shutterstock AN ‘AFFORDABILITY CRISIS’ will continue to drive people into homelessness after the pandemic without stronger supports from the State, homeless charity the Simon Communities of Ireland has warned. The charity’s quarterly ‘Locked Out’ report has highlighted the continued shortage of homes across the country for Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) recipients, despite

When Tammy Nguyen told her family she had met an Irish man and was moving to Ireland to live with him they were extremely unhappy. Her mother warned that marrying a foreigner would give her a bad reputation while other family members said if the relationship ended, no man would ever want to date her.

Plans for a 19-storey tower at the former Player Wills factory site on Dublin’s South Circular Road would be “horrendously out of proportion” with the surrounding two-storey homes, local residents have said. Hundreds of objections are expected to be lodged with An Bord Pleanála this week against US property group Hines’ plans for the scheme

Cuckoo funds continued to gobble up swathes of the residential property market last year, despite the pandemic, and now own a combined 15,500 homes here. A small number of funds spent a combined €1.75bn in Ireland in 2020 buying residential units, according to analysis by real estate group CBRE. That was down on the record

THE REAL COSTS of New Apartment Delivery 2020, published today by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, highlights that unaffordable housing prices remain the key obstacle for many people who would like to own their own home. The report found that the all-in cost of private developer-led delivery of medium-rise two-bedroom apartments in the Greater

A woman guilty of brothel-keeping in Waterford was part of a “sophisticated criminal organisation” working across Ireland and Poland, according to a Circuit Court judge. Magdalena Jankowska (32) avoided jail for the offence on Tuesday afternoon, but has been ordered to return to her native Poland in 14 days or risk activating the one-year prison

An affordability crisis will continue to drive people into homelessness, a charity has warned. he Simon Communities of Ireland said an underlying chronic lack of affordable supply persists in the wake of the pandemic. According to their quarterly Locked Out report, single people face a limited amount of affordable properties. The report found just four