A new plan by government to clear the 90,000 waiting list for social housing has been welcomed by support groups, but with a warning that much more work is needed to ease the crisis.

A young couple on a social housing list for two years say they are really looking forward to raising their newborn daughter in their first home.

Houses in a former ghost estate have been completed today as part of a new approach to address the State's social housing crisis.

An unfinished housing estate in Co Cork will be the first to benefit from a new Nama initiative to fast-track the delivery of social housing in so-called ghost estates.

IRELAND has a 18-to-24 month window of opportunity to attract international capital to quality assets to be disposed of — after that, revaluation of other competing assets in countries like France, Spain, and Holland will add to the competition for mobile capital.

President Michael D Higgins is to join with over 200 Irish industry and public sector leaders to mark the UN International Year of Co-operatives at a national conference in Croke Park on Tuesday, May 15.

Dan Weeks, Bloomberg