How will new retirement rules affect workers and employers?
Under the new legislation, employees have a right to decline to leave work before age 66
Renting
Dublin council blocked from impending rent hike following emergency meeting
Successful motion obliges council to engage with tenants and unions before increases can come into effect
Dublin house prices are slipping. What is going on?
Most of the slowdown in price growth is in cities, particularly Dublin
Ireland’s new short-term let rules: how likely are they to work?
Observers say enforcement is required to make new rules work and more homes available to long-term renters
Tenant forced to ‘walk the streets’ after illegal eviction awarded €8,000 in damages
Residential Tenancies Board tribunal describes steps required to recover belongings as ‘intimidatory’
Increase in apartment supply still needed to meet Ireland’s housing demand – report
Supply of multi-family units for rent is on the rise, but viability challenges remain according to Hooke & MacDonald report
Ireland to introduce some of Europe’s ‘strictest’ rules on short-term lets, says Minister
Register for Airbnb-style lets being created with view to force homes out of holiday market and in to private rental sector
Existing tenants won’t allow us access to view the home we hope to buy. What can we do?
Landlord says tenants will not permit prospective purchasers to view property while they remain in situ
‘The lift in our apartment building hasn’t been working for weeks. What can we do?’
We live on fourth floor with a toddler and having to climb flights of stairs many times a day is affecting our lives
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
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
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
School holidays ‘highly challenging’ for thousands of homeless children as rates rise again
Weekly snapshot does not consider overcrowded housing, refuges, couch-surfing, sleeping rough or IPAS
One of Ireland’s biggest landlords fined €26,000 for rent rule breaches
Dublin-registered Vestry Limited Partnership failed to comply with rent pressure zone requirements
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices