A HOUSE that produces its own electricity and costs just €50 a year to heat is being unveiled in Britain this weekend by Irish company Kingspan Century.

AN Irish property company has agreed an €80 million deal to develop a retail site in southern Spain.

The Green Party will hold its national conference in Galway this weekend.

The Greens face into their biggest-ever national conference this weekend while enjoying their highest rating in opinion polls.

Tánaiste Michael McDowell will today open his first national conference as Progressive Democrats leader as the party languishes at its lowest-ever position in the polls.

AN IRISH company has secured a third contract with the British Government to build houses for less than €87,750.

ONE day you’re a rock ‘head’, the next you’re a chippie in a hard hat.

I BELIEVE Dick Roche should be restyled Minister for Employment and the Environment.

DEVELOPERS who pay farmers money for the right to be first buyer of their land if it is rezoned for housing must be forced to declare this publicly to provide cheaper homes, Housing Minister Noel Ahern insisted yesterday.

THE cost of building a new home is three times cheaper in Britain than in Ireland, a conference was told yesterday.

UP to 250,000 new homes may not be energy efficient because the Government has delayed enforcing EU regulations to protect the concrete industry, it was claimed yesterday.

The Government tonight defended itself against claims that it was giving special treatment to sections of the building industry.

Up to 250,000 new homes may not be energy-efficient because the Government has delayed enforcing regulations to protect the building industry, it was claimed today.

The Irish building firm Century Homes has been sold to the Kingspan construction group in a deal worth almost €100m.

FORMER British Prime Minister John Major is to be the keynote speaker at the first national forum on family business issues.

FORMER British Prime Minister John Major will be the keynote speaker at a conference on sustaining Irish family businesses in Cork next month.

A GROUP of senior judges has recommended penalties for all parties in personal injury cases who falsify or exaggerate claims, delay proceedings or create unnecessary expense.

The Alliance for Insurance Reform (AIR), has defended Ireland's workplace safety record.

TWO out of five companies had to borrow to pay spiralling insurance premiums last year and more than one in ten fired staff to divert cash to insurance costs, it emerged yesterday.

Some 250 jobs are to be created with the expansion of timber company Century Homes, it was confirmed today.