It will take at least another three years before the number of people becoming homeless starts to decrease.

Demand for housing will get even worse before it gets better the Housing Minister has admitted.

What’s your biggest fear? Being eaten feet first by sharks? Spiders nesting in your ear? Being thrown off a roof by frothing maniacs?

Comments by a local authority official, that homelessness takes “years of bad behaviour”, showed no awareness of the role trauma plays in people’s lives, according to the director of Cork Simon.

Government has zero legitimacy in criticising the commentary around housing, until real improvement can be shown, writes Alison O’Connor

It is difficult to escape the conclusion that Solidarity TDs — not always known for sober assessment — are correct in arguing that there appears to be a co-ordinated by the Government to “spin” the narrative on the housing crisis.

Katie McCarthy holds the record for the most appearances with Cork City Women’s FC, having played since the club’s foundation, in 2011, bar an 18-month spell between DLR Waves and Wexford Youths. Tomorrow will be her 72nd appearance and her first in the FAI Women’s Cup final.

Family, friends and politicians bade a final farewell to PJ Mara yesterday as the former government press secretary was laid to rest in Co Galway.

John Flood could have been at the Fifa Ballon d’Or gala in Zurich last night rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of world football.

A passion for the game, a natural talent with a football and a determination as a young girl to succeed in a boys’ world all helped lead up to the moment of magic which has seen Stephanie Roche nominated for Fifa’s 2014 Goal Of The Year.

Ireland’s Stephanie Roche has described the reaction to her nomination for FIFA’s Puskas award for best goal of the year as “incredible.”

THAT goal by Peamount United's Stephanie Roche which has become has gone viral is now earning cash for her manager.

Jack Wilshire’s naughty finish to one of the team goals of the season has just got a little naughtier.

Jack Wilshere? Jack Who-shere, more like.

PEAMOUNT UNITED versus Paris Saint-Germain.

NEVER GIVE UP turned back the clock at Limerick on Saturday night when getting his 2005 Kerry Agri Business Irish St Leger challenge off to a winning start.

THERE’S a lot to be said for the game of golf (and a lot against), but few people have ever held the sport aloft as a paradigm of social equality.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese’s campaign team will seek individual and corporate donations to raise funding for the possible presidential election.

Four new non-executive directors have been appointed to the board of Ulster Bank.

PUBLIC relations consultant Eileen Gleeson told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday she and the Esat Digifone consortium were surprised by the earlier-than-expected announcement of the winning bid for the country’s second mobile phone licence.

The MD of the public relations firm Weber Shandwick FCC, Ms Eileen Gleeson, has stepped down as managing director to take up the role of chairman.