Housing crisis

Controversial new apartment standards open for public consultation amid legal challenge

Environmental impact report published after its absence was highlighted in legal case

Home-building slowed sharply last month, Irish construction firms say

The rate of decline accelerated to its fastest rate since October, report from AIB shows

Ireland not producing enough surveyors to deliver National Development Plan, report says

Shortfall of 2,200-plus graduates over coming four years will hinder infrastructure projects and housebuilding, SCSI warns

Michael Bailey firm contests Fingal council demand for €1m financial contribution over plan for 530 new homes

Fingal County Council granted planning permission last month for 530 apartments and one creche at Barrysparks and Crowscastle, Swords

Sex-for-rent demands in Ireland: ‘You can sleep with me or I’m not going to help you’

Maria’s story is a snapshot of the situations many international students, migrants and women face in Ireland’s ‘precarious’ housing market

Singer-songwriter Loah: ‘I like praying. It puts you in a humble state, open to the goodness of people’

As Loah releases her debut album, the singer-songwriter talks about her multifaceted career, making rural west Cork her home and embracing her faith

Residents facing eviction from retirement village given 11th-hour extension

Speculation that move by landlord follows change to rental laws that guarantee minimum six-year tenancies

Dooneen: In Keith Ridgway’s retrofuturistic Dublin, the housing crisis plays out with deadly consequences

Compelling novel about hope, dereliction and the unmercifulness of privilege is set in a city that is both recognisable and weirdly unfamiliar

Debut novelist Jessamine O’Connor: ‘Trying fiction was really refreshing. I have been doing poetry for 20 years’

The writer on her housing-crisis novel Somewhere, her collaborative work, and playing Countdown in the pub

Stefan Al’s spirited account of what humans have got right and wrong when making homes

Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home by Stefan Al

Central Bank of Ireland’s Sandyford site unlikely to be developed for housing for a decade

Annual report also reveals bank made €104.6 million loss in 2025 but saw the value of its gold holdings soar to €1.42 billion

Oliver Bond residents are suffering the slow violence of State neglect

A constitutional right to housing would give residents of the inner-city Dublin complex a tool to pursue their rights

Kennedy Wilson partners with Dutch pensions player APG on €2bn Irish residential venture

Joint venture will develop and manage more than 3,400 build-to-rent homes at four key sites in Dublin

Rules must accommodate nature while building 50,000 homes a year

Plans for 300,000 housing units by 2030 could be hugely destructive to biodiversity. Supporting long-term ecological resilience is critical

Ireland’s reliance on US multinational tax take ‘poses risks’, European Commission warns

Corporate tax receipts from US companies well in excess of what could be explained by their domestic economic activity in Republic

Twice as hard to afford a home in Dublin as Belfast, new CSO data shows

Report comparing economies North and South shows greater earnings mean taxes on income are higher in the Republic

Ireland’s housing statistics are meaningless without wider context

The State remains focused on abstract output figures that are disconnected from lived reality

Builders wait on State to seek bids for infrastructure projects

More detail needed on €270bn plan, says industry chief

Make Strange by Niamh Campbell: Haunting portrayal of maternal anxiety nested in an unnerving premise

There’s a lot going on in this novel, so much so that the main plot is in danger of being sidelined

‘Very disturbing’: How Ireland’s far right has opened new front by targeting Dublin’s council homes

The far right is hijacking anger on working-class Dublin estates over a shortage of council houses by vandalising vacant properties

Harris pushes back on claim Irish housing crisis among ‘most severe’ in Europe

Housing poses challenge across EU, Harris says at turning of sod on 410-home scheme in Cork

Are Sinn Féin drifting away from an uneasy left-wing alliance?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Strong start to 2026 for Ires as new rent rules come into effect

Demand for rental accommodation remains strong

Why we are making more progress on housing today than before

Over the last 10 years, 250,000 homes were built in the State

Taoiseach was wrong to dismiss comparisons with famine-era evictions. Here’s why

At a time when evictions have surpassed 19th-century levels, it is ill-advised to suggest lessons can’t be learned from the past

Irish house prices to increase by ‘more sedate’ 4% in 2026, says Bank of Ireland

New homes drive market as affordability remains ‘stretched’ and second-hand sales continue to decline

The ‘Taj Mahal of dereliction’: A ghost estate on the outskirts of Castlebar, Co Mayo

Twenty years after the Waterways estate was granted permission, it remains an unfinished, unresolved memento of the Celtic Tiger

Couple ordered to return part of deposit after charging tenants for new carpets aimed at boosting value

Landlords Gerard and Margaret Ryan found to have unlawfully retained €1,910 from the deposit

When dinner in Dublin costs about the same as Switzerland, how do the Irish afford it?

I ended up in Switzerland by accident, with a view of the Matterhorn from my window

Housing crisis: Grants to turn space above shops into homes could be ‘game changer’

Government hopes grants of up to €165,000 will mean thousands of vacant properties return to use

Planning rules for one-off housing to be eased under new proposals

Changes will be a ‘loosening’ of current restrictions but ‘not a free for all’, Government source says

Ireland’s housing story has two narratives: one good, one bad

If supply is ticking up, so are prices, creating insurmountable affordability challenges for many young people

Taoiseach has Gaza on his mind amid European tour

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Housing crisis will prevail until politicians legislate to prioritise owner-occupiers

Successive governments have facilitated mega-wealthy individuals and funds in purchasing large swathes of new and existing housing

Numbers working in construction surges by 11.7% amid generally weak CSO jobs data

Concern as the number of people in employment falls by 15,700, or 0.6%, from the previous quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis

Ireland leads calls to review EU-Israel trade

Inside Politics: Micheál Martin says behaviour of Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir towards Gaza flotilla activists was ‘disgusting’ and ‘disgraceful’

Why are rents in Ireland at record levels?

Increase in rents has coincided with Government’s new rent control system coming into force in March

Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Number of homes available to rent in Dublin down almost a quarter

Marked difference in availability of rental properties in the capital and the rest of the country

Rents in Ireland surged by highest level on record after new control system started

Average monthly rent nationwide for a two-bedroom apartment was €2,176 in the first quarter, Daft.ie report shows

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