US property developer Hines is to build more than 1,200 rental houses in south Dublin, at a cost of €450m, “in the coming years”.

Devin Toner may reach for the sky but horizontal seems to be the default mode.

The main developer of the new town at Cherrywood in Dublin wants €41m for 126 social housing homes.

The developers who have bought the old Central Bank on Dame Street in Dublin have revealed their plans for it.

The Liffey Valley Shopping Centre has been bought for more than €630m.

Domestic violence agencies face an uphill struggle when a man who bragged about sexual assault could still be elected president of the US, singer Hozier said yesterday.

Maria Dempsey will open a major conference on domestic violence next week — the sixth anniversary of her daughter’s horrific murder.

A local authority has given the green light for the major expansion of one of Dublin’s largest shopping centres, which is to include the development of an Olympic-standard ice rink.

"IF WE hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.”

Germany’s largest pension scheme group is eyeing an Irish retail property splurge as part of a €1.3bn pan-European investment plan.

Sex robots may still be a figment of some fevered imaginations, but many companies which make sex dolls are already at work on adding electronics and artificial intelligence to their products.

The live-in boyfriend of actor Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter was charged with her murder yesterday, US police said.

Can’t live with them, can’t live without them: increasing numbers of adult children still live at home. But the author of a new parenting guide tells Lisa Salmon why it’s best to let them go.

A spoiler-free guide to the tellybox tonight.

Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines and Robert Kennedy Jr are now husband and wife.

Clermont 22 Leicester 16

Clermont Auvergne 28 Racing Metro 3

Clermont Auvergne 23 Harlequins 13

The mother of one of the women murdered by John Geary has appealed to people trying to escape a controlling relationship to be wary of the danger they could be in.

A man has been given four concurrent life sentences for murdering two women and two children.

An Englishman who had planned to start a new life with Sarah Hines days before she and her two children and a friend were murdered has told how their relationship had been a fairytale romance.

As John Geary yesterday began four life sentences , life went on as normal at 18 Hazelgrove, Newcastle West.

John Geary left his rented house on the morning of Nov 15, 2010, with one intention — to murder Sarah Hines.

A Limerick man has been jailed for life for murdering four people including his ex-partner and their five-month-old baby daughter in attacks of exceptional violence.

Booed like a B-movie villain at the Saturday morning picture show, and embraced by old foes at the end of the reel come Saturday evening, Paul O’Connell got through another indefatigable 80 minutes at rugby’s highest level to end what must have been a trying two weeks for the Munster icon.

Munster's Heineken Cup adventure has taken them to the south of France today for a semi-final shoot-out with Clermont Auvergne today.

You’d think a man who lived in Ireland for a couple of years would be spending a lot of time with the Clermont Auvergne backroom staff ahead of Saturday’s Heineken Cup semi-final clash with Munster.

Middlesbrough 0 Chelsea 2

Aston Villa 2 Bradford City 1

Bradford 3 Aston Villa 1

Bradford 3 Aston Villa 1

Jonathan Sexton has been annoyed with himself this week.

Leinster 21 Clermont Auvergne 28

Sunderland 0 Middlesbrough 1

Wigan 0 Bradford 0 (Bradford win 4-2 on penalties after extra time)

If reports from New Zealand this week are accurate, then 38-year-old Brad Thorn will be following up his three-month stint with Leinster earlier this year with a swansong of a season back on home soil with the Highlanders.

Gethin Jenkins accepts he may have to miss next summer’s British and Irish Lions tour of Australia if Toulon reach the French Top 14 final.

Four years ago, staff and students from Methodist College applauded the cup-winning exploits of Craig Gilroy, Paddy Jackson and Adam Macklin.

If Leinster dominate these key areas in France, they will deserve the plaudits

Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall put English rugby’s European failure down to the gulf in the salary cap between the Aviva Premiership and the rest.

Saracens 3 Clermont Auvergne 22