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Critics fear relaxing of rural housing guidelines will weaken Gaeltacht areas
Social housing
The Housing Minister brought the draft Sustainable Rural and Gaeltacht Housing National Planning Statement (NPS) to Cabinet
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Plans to deliver 542 new homes in Dublin announced
Housing
All 542 new homes will be made available as cost rental
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Ireland's rental crisis: Tenants charged €199 a week to share a room with stranger and 11 housemates
Housing
There are currently under 1,000 properties available to rent in Dublin on Daft.ie
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Landlord does U-turn on evicting 36 homes in Wexford, acknowledging it has caused 'stress'
Wexford
100 residents in Hazelwood Estate in Bridgetown, Wexford, were told they were being kicked out
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Families 'distraught' after 36 households given eviction notices in Wexford estate
Housing
Households received the notices last Friday, just two days before new rent reforms came into place on March 1
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The Irish Government is slapping would-be homeowners in the face - it's gone too far
Housing
We’ve been building houses and apartments all right - it’s just that they end up being money generating machines for far away and faceless corporations
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Ireland housing crisis: Empty properties targeted in fresh social housing drive
Housing
To date, nearly 1,000 previously disused houses have been converted and transformed under the initiative.
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Government slammed for falling 'significantly short' as 4,000 fewer homes completed in 2025
Housing
A total of 36,284 new houses and apartments were delivered in 2025
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'After 17 years of hunting I finally own a home for my family after fearing homelessness'
Housing
Derek McCluskey and his family were among 20 new home owners in a new estate in Gorey, Co Wexford
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'If I won the Lotto I'd still live here' - Eoin Ó Broin hears of pride of those in Dublin's social housing
Social housing
At the heart of Flats and Cottages is the residents who currently live in the homes that saved thousands of people from Dublin’s tenements
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Sinn Fein thought Government video advising people how to live with parents was 'Waterford Whispers'
Micheal Martin
Sinn Fein's housing spokesperson said he initially thought the clip was a Waterford Whispers video
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Government to be given emergency powers to speed up infrastructure under new plan
Housing
The Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforce published a report and action plan detailing 30 actions and deadlines
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Man cut off his own head in horror protest after being evicted from flat
Suicide
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT David Phyall, 50, suffered a gruesome death after deciding to end his own life as he refused to leave his 1960s home in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, which was marked for demolition
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Irish Government plans to stop illegal immigrants getting free social housing
Social housing
A new law banning the controversial practice is to be published in the Autumn and will be presented to the Dail in the coming months
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Woman who was brutally tortured by gang says the system has let her down - while helping her attackers
Courts
Brave survivor Natalie Ennis, 37, who was beaten to the head and body with a metal pole and burned with a blow torch and heated hammer, has hit out at the fact that she has yet to receive any counselling - yet her attackers have
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'Zero possibility' of government reaching housing targets despite significant rise in house completions
Housing
Some 9,214 new houses were completed in April, May and June of this year, according to the latest Central Statistic Office figures
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Council tenant who 'sublet' house to family charged with threatening occupant
Dublin district court
John Kelly, 40, of Silken Gardens, Maynooth is alleged to have threatened a man with a Stanley knife and screwdriver after Kildare County Council became aware of the situation
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Government missed its social housing targets again in 2024
Housing
The Government also mised its overall housing target in 2024 of 33,300, despite stating during the election that 40,000 homes would be built in 2024.
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Housing minister allocates €436 million for social housing needs across Ireland
Social housing
€111 million has been allocated for 82 new social housing projects which will provide over 1,300 newly built homes
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Short-term lets outnumber long-term rentals by 16 to one, stark new figures reveal
Housing
These 32,000 properties could house all the families in emergency accommodation 15 times over, Social Democrats’ housing spokesman Rory Hearne told the Irish Mirror
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Mum-of-five in fear over 'paranormal activity' in new council house fails in court bid for move
Social housing
Louise Stokes said 'I never asked for a mansion, I asked for a safe home for my kids'
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'The day this country stopped building council houses is the day the housing crisis began'
News Opinion
'The housing crisis is a national emergency. We need the cleverest people in the land working on it - like Sean Canney'
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Construction commenced on 2,264 homes in August, Department of Housing confirms
Housing
For the first eight months of 2024, 37,622 homes commenced
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'Like a bunch of idiots, politicians and civil servants created a mess that was going to haunt us'
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'We went from building thousands of new council homes every year to zero'
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