Average rents are continuing to rise nationally, with inflation highest outside Dublin, according to the latest Rent Index from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB).

Housing charity Threshold is welcoming new regulations on short-term lets which come into effect today.

The government has been told to adopt radical solutions to tackle the country's rental market or face a worsening of the housing crisis.

Landlords who rent out their properties on Airbnb face being hit with extra water, insurance, and commercial rates bill from July 1.

Laws should be considered to ban rental-sector booking fees in the same way schools are now banned from charging non-refundable application fees, housing charity Threshold has said.

Threshold has welcomed a €14,000 award to a Munster-based family of six after they were discriminated against on the grounds of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), but said more decisions might be required to force landlords to comply with the law.

The national housing charity Threshold is launching an information campaign for people looking for rented accommodation.

Domestic renters should be given similar rights to commercial tenants due to the number of people losing their tenancy due to properties being put on the market.

My mother had me at 42 and I was only born because she was morally opposed to abortion, writes Victoria White.

The son of "Disappeared" murder victim Jean McConville brought his family back together, his daughter told his funeral.

A "courageous" victims campaigner orphaned and allegedly abused in Northern Ireland following the murder of his mother Jean McConville has died.

An NCT-type certification for housing should be introduced to tackle substandard rental accommodation.

A former Celtic Football Club youth coach and kitman charged with a child sex offence has been remanded in prison in the North for his own safety.

A former football coach has been arrested in the North over sex abuse claims.

Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty doesn’t see a merger between the English league and the Pro12 “in the foreseeable future”, adding that international rugby runs the risk of overexposure through too many fixtures.

A rapist in England who confessed when police tracked him down almost 35 years after the attack has been jailed for nearly five years.

Sterling advanced yesterday approaching its strongest level in three weeks against the euro, after Bank of England policymakers said China’s slowdown hasn’t shaken their conviction that the time for the first UK interest-rate increase since 2007 is coming nearer.

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Five sets of sisters will be hoping to win the senior All-Ireland club title with Mourneabbey on Sunday.

Many families would be better off paying Irish Water’s penalty fee for failing to register with the company than paying the normal charges for registered customers.

Kerry 1-22 Donegal 2-14 (After extra time)

Kerry 1-22 Donegal 2-14 (aet)

A former traffic warden fought back tears when she claimed her successor tried to intimidate motorists at her mother’s funeral.

The High Court has ordered the arrest of a local election candidate over her failure to remove allegedly defamatory material about Bundoran Town Council posted on YouTube.

Up to 500 people are expected to attend a homecoming party for John Downey in Co Donegal.

Inquiries into a hit-and-run death along the border have been upgraded to a murder investigation.

Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty has revealed that alternative plans to the Heineken Cup will be drawn up as quickly as possible.

A decision on English clubs playing in Europe next season is expected to be made at a meeting of Premiership Rugby’s shareholders in London today.

A decision on English clubs playing in Europe next season is expected to be made at a meeting of Premiership Rugby’s shareholders in London tomorrow.

Premiership Rugby’s major shareholders are set to meet this week following latest developments in a crisis that has gripped the European club game.

England’s clubs could yet be involved in a tournament run by European Rugby Cup next season if they secure the assurances that it will be replaced for 2015-16.

England’s clubs have edged back from the brink of exclusion from European competition next season following a dramatic day in a dispute destined to continue for another year.

England’s clubs have edged back from the brink of exclusion from European competition next season following a dramatic day in a dispute destined to continue for another year.

Two days of talks ended yesterday in Dublin with the ERC and its six member unions moving halfway towards the rebellious English and French clubs and their demands for a radically altered European club structure.

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What looks destined to be the 19th and final Heineken Cup will be launched at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium this morning.

Premiership Rugby and its French counterparts have been accused of showing a lack of respect during an increasingly bitter row over the Heineken Cup’s future.

The French Rugby Federation is on a collision course with clubs from the Aviva Premiership and Top 14 as the dispute over the future of the Heineken Cup continued to escalate.

Ireland’s provinces have been told they would be welcomed with open arms if they wanted to join European rugby’s proposed breakaway competition, as English clubs insisted they would not back down in the battle over the future of the Heineken Cup.

DENTAL decay is the single most common chronic disease of childhood.

The country’s largest charity has warned against further hikes in gas and electricity prices as Bord Gáis customers wait to hear if the energy regulator will approve plans for a 7% increase in charges.