The number of people homeless has exceeded 10,000 for the first time as a new report shows a year-on-year rise in rents.

A local authority is to call on the Housing Agency to seek a solution to an issue which has seen half of one of the country’s largest commuter towns excluded from rent control legislation.

A new Housing Authority is needed to tackle the escalating homelessness crisis in Ireland before the issue intensifies this winter, the opposition claims.

A work experience girl who joined an office lottery syndicate has scooped a share in a $108m (€109.4m) jackpot.

NEW YORK prosecutors said as many as 4,000 people used ATMs to steal $15 million from a municipal employees’ credit union whose computer security system was damaged in the September 11 attack.