Arrears by social housing tenants have doubled in the last eight years, leaving councils owed a staggering €65m in unpaid rent.

PRESERVATION works are to be undertaken by North Tipperary Co Council in a bid to stave off the closure of one of the country’s oldest courthouses.

GALWAY City Council has rejected claims that it could have prevented the outbreak of cryptosporidium contamination in the local water supply if it had used technology presented to it last year.