Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has dashed Fine Gael hopes of bringing in a privacy law.

The agency tasked with collecting the Household charge says staff members have received hate mail and death threats.

Five solicitors based in Cork City have agreed to give free legal advice to people facing possible court action for non-payment of the controversial household tax.

Households owed a combined €150.1bn to lenders as of the end of last year, according to figures from the Central Bank.

Households should boycott the ESB over the treatment of a pensioner jailed for not letting the electricity company cut down her trees, campaigners said.

IT never ceases to annoy me when I read utterances of political precariousness, made by people whom I would have adjudicated as informed.

Households look set to face an increase in their gas bills later this year after Bord Gáis confirmed that it would be applying to the energy regulator for a price increase.

Households around a so-called bomb factory in Leeds were evacuated for a second time today.

Households have lost their electricity this evening as storms cut power on the east part of the country.