Office of Public Works

Sometimes, when a problem is complex and protracted, a simple example of hubristic extravagance can become the emblem of all that is wrong

Minister says OPW has questions to answer over cost of structure that allows for storage of 18 bikes

‘A disaster waiting to happen’: Woman says racing with horse-drawn devices is a danger to young and old, dogs, walkers and disabled persons

‘Multi-use’ offices planned for civil servants to allow ‘best use of the State’s property portfolio’ under reforms linked to pay deal

Stags fed low-quality food have smaller antlers, impacting their mating success, according to UCD study

The Morrison’s Island Public Realm and Flood Defence project will protect 400 city centre properties

Plan questioned after similar facility, ‘the Explorium’, reopened this year after pandemic

Leo Carroll’s building, with its ‘elegant spiral staircases, delicate balustrading and bold terrazzo flooring’, would be razed

As caretakers on the epic Kerry island for six months, Emily Campbell and Daniel Regan were taken by the simple life, and found it hard to adjust back to city living

Flooding incidents are increasing on the train track at Ballycar between Ennis and Limerick, and passengers are not convinced a solution will be implemented any time soon

Park is mix of formerly privately owned marine and land sites around Kerry, now under management of National Parks and Wildlife Service

Details of Co Kerry amenity announced in Dingle to coincide with Earth Day

The ever-expanding Lough Funshinagh is one of the most pressing flood-related emergencies in the country, forcing more people to abandon their homes

New owner in line for 9.09% return on investment underpinned by lease to Office of Public Works

More than 120 parties made submissions on underground rail line during six-week An Bord Pleanála hearing

Transport Infrastructure Ireland CEO Peter Walsh was speaking on the final day of An Bord Pleanála’s hearing on the proposed 18.8km rail line

Station could ‘compromise one of city’s most noted cultural heritage anchors’, State advisory body says

OPW says construction of Metrolink line ‘cannot be at the expense of Ireland’s national heritage’, while TII insists any impacts will be ‘mitigated’

Communities affected by last year’s flood ‘left to fend for themselves’, campaigners say outside Leinster House

More than 120 parties to speak at planning meetings on long-delayed underground line including affected residents and campaign groups

Historic building threatened by fires, vandalism, blood, urine, vomit and ‘human excrement’, request for railings claims

As a potent piece of Ireland’s history, the castle is truly a national treasure. We should handle it with a lot more care

Relief schemes are complex and take a long time, but will be vital as extreme weather events become more frequent

Credit Suisse had acquired the Chancery Building from Hibernia Reit for €23.8m in 2017

Poddle flood relief scheme was ordered following October 2011 floods during which hospice nurse was drowned

A decision on the permanent location for a recently-unveiled portrait of Senator David Norris is also on hold pending further discussion by the working group

Green Party leader says plans to mitigate flooding must include greater grassland and forestry management and better use of natural flood plains

Then-city architect intervened after fire at theatre in 1951, preserving stones in Killiney garden for future reconstruction

More Than Concrete Blocks: Volume 3, about Dublin’s 20th-century buildings and their stories, marks the end of a 12-year ‘epic journey’

Tom Enright, subject of critical Sipo report in 2022, denies making off-air verbal attack on presenter Alan Corcoran

Ireland’s second largest lake suffering from being ‘out of sight, out of mind’

The complex of 19 court rooms is to be built on a derelict site beside Dublin’s Four Courts

The case for Ireland following its neighbours in introducing ‘the quintessential ecosystem engineer’ to our rivers

We must use nature-based solutions to solve our extensive drainage problems

Defences on Strand Road, first recommended 20 years ago to protect some 1,000 home in area, not expected to be in place before 2032

Rising sea levels and increased wave height requires redesign of long-awaited project, says Dublin City Council

Data Protection Commission says there ‘simply aren’t enough people’ if Government implements new multi-committee system of governance

Sinn Féin TD says access structure at ‘pinch point’ on Owenacurra, which breached its banks last month

Measures to be put in place pending completion of ‘complex’ €50m flood relief scheme for town at risk of flooding from four separate sources

Weather over last two months has proven it's getting warmer and wetter