Mitchell McDermott said that all types of costs, including labour costs, are soaring as the number of new workers recruited by the industry cannot keep up with the building output of new offices and houses.

A woman has told a jury of the moment she faced a gunman in her garden, who fired two shots as she fled her home.

All-Ireland champions Ballyhale Shamrocks had to work hard to dispose of a gutsy Clonkill side in today's Leinster Club SHC quarter-final in Mullingar.

In a major lift to Eddie Jones’ men, the powerful Saracens number eight is on course to recover from the ankle injury that forced him off at half-time against Argentina 10 days ago.

There has been a 50% increase in the number of injuries suffered by prison officers dealing with non-compliant prisoners.

I have started seeing a new man. But we were chatting about our sexual history and I am so turned off by the fact that he has slept with 100 women. What should I do?

Two Gardaí escaped uninjured when shots were fired on the Garda van on Buttercup Park at 11.20pm on Thursday night.

The country’s judiciary claimed more than €1m in expenses for the first six months of this year.

The idea of “passing the parcel” with children is unacceptable, a judge has said as he deferred ruling on an application to revoke a troubled 16-year-old boy’s bail pending a High Court review of his care.

A new recording system has revealed that far greater numbers of prison officers are injured by inmates than was previously reflected in official statistics.

Cian McBride won’t forget this Leinster U20 quarter-final tie anytime soon, scoring the early goal that decided the game and leaving the field late on after a red card.

New figures from the Irish Prison Service (IPS) have revealed the most dangerous prison in the country for prisoners - and prison staff.

Overcrowding in prisons is leading to intimidation and violence, according to the Prison Officers Association.

A former teammate of Israel Folau has said it is time for the player "to be moved on".

Paddy Power-Betfair is targeting so-called 'contribution' profits of $600m (€530m)from its currently loss-making US operations by the middle of the next decade.

Birmingham City fan Paul Mitchell, 27, has been jailed at Birmingham Magistrates' Court for 14 weeks for assaulting Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish.

Sharon Corr is ready to take to the stage once more, this time with fellow musician, Vonda Shepherd, she tells Lorraine Wylie.

Shares in Paddy Power-Betfair jumped by as much as 2.5% on the back of the betting group taking a punt on the growing eastern European markets of Georgia and Armenia.

England defence coach John Mitchell stoked the fires ahead of their trip to Dublin this Saturday by claiming that the defending Guinness Six Nations champions will “try and bore the shit out of us” at Aviva Stadium.

Paddy Power-Betfair’s expansion into the US sports betting market may add as much as €240m to its annual group earnings by 2023, according to Davy.

Ballyboden St Enda’s (Dublin) 2-25 Clonkill (Westmeath) 2-19

Odsonne Edouard grabbed a double as Celtic powered their way to within a point of Ladbrokes Premiership leaders Hearts with a 5-0 hammering of the Jambos at Parkhead.

There are very few people who have made such a significant contribution to securing the peace everyone on this island enjoys today as former US senator George Mitchell.

A youth accused of murdering a Japanese man in a stabbing in Dundalk is to face a fitness-to-plead hearing to determine whether he should stand trial, a court has heard.

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Manchester United’s troubled International Champions Cup campaign suffered another blow, with a 4-1 defeat to Premier League rivals, Liverpool, in Michigan on Saturday night.

Prison bosses are considering arming with batons and body cameras officers in a new facility for the most dangerous prisoners.

Assaults on prison officers by inmates have increased over the last three years – but representatives claim the figures still do not capture the full scale of violence.

The HSE will be urged today to release the full contracts of the US laboratories at the centre of the cervical cancer tests scandal amid ongoing and disputed claims that access to key records is being covered up.

Meath registered their second successive victory in the Electric Ireland Leinster Minor Football Championship following their Group 1 1-13 to 2-8 win over Dublin at Páirc Tailteann last night.

Macbeth and Hamlet were mentioned by the main protagonists, but in truth, it was far closer to A Christmas Carol.

We weren’t just ending the conflict, we were also putting in place arrangements to replace the Anglo-Irish Agreement, writes then junior minister Liz O’Donnell

The architects of the Good Friday Agreement have joined forces to urge British prime minister Theresa May to end her “aloof” approach to the North and help break the year-long political deadlock two decades on from the historic peace deal.

The year-long stalemate in the North and the absence of the Stormont assembly is “highly disappointing”, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said.

Senator George Mitchell has said a Brexit outcome that avoids a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland must be encouraged.

Latest: Children's Minister Katherine Zappone tonight updated the Dáil on the progress of the Commission of Investigation, saying the final report was now due in February next year.

The father of a teenager who spent 30 hours trapped in a car wreck in Australian woods said he had followed his intuition by hiring the helicopter that found his seriously injured son.

Dessie O’Hare has been remanded on bail pending a decision on whether he will be tried in the Special Criminal Court on charges of assault, violent disorder, and the false imprisonment of three people in Dublin.

Profitable apartments in Dublin city centre require a joint income of €87,000.

An £8m (€9.1m) office and retail block in Belfast will be the first Grade A development to have guaranteed internet connectivity, those behind the project have said.

A doctor charged with the murder of her three-year-old son was unable to attend court for a third time yesterday, on illness grounds.

A criminal serving sentences for violent disorder and for threatening to kill a garda has been given an extra two months’ jail for having a phone hidden in a prison cell.

Skye Olivia Mitchell, 18, and Caitlin Lydia Huddleston, 18, both from Millom, were pronounced dead at the scene of the incident on Friday night.