TDs and other elected representatives across the country have given a mix of recommendations and complaints to the boundary commission ahead of proposed constituency changes this year.

Embattled junior minister Dara Murphy has been selected to run as Fine Gael’s sole candidate in Cork North Central after a tight-run selection convention last night.

The Housing and Planning Minister has unveiled the Government's €290m euro plan to regenerate Limerick City.

Moves to allow the development of a town centre on a flood plain in Midleton have been challenged by Housing and Planning Minister Jan O’Sullivan.

Amid the wreckage of the so-called Celtic Tiger era, twin spectres that continue to haunt the economy are the hundreds of unfinished ghost estates up and down the country — many of them built in the middle of nowhere — and the timebomb of mortgage arrears facing landlords, now double the rate of arrears confronting ordinary home owners.