Susan McGovern has sued the the Irish Prison Service, the Minister for Justice, Ireland and the Attorney General and the Governor of Limerick Prison.

Irish households are now 80% wealthier than they were at the low point of the recession.

Property price rises are slowing across the state as supply increases, according to the latest Residential Property Price Index from the Central Statistics Office.

New data released by the CSO illustrates the reliance on existing builds in the property market. It also shows price inflation at its lowest point since December 2007.

The lack of new homes in Ireland is “deeply worrying” and is contributing to the challenges faced by first-time buyers trying to enter the market, according to Brokers Ireland.

The lack of new homes in Ireland is "deeply worrying" and is contributing to the challenges faced by first-time buyers trying to enter the market, according to Brokers Ireland.

New house price figures show a steadying in the cost of property, but brokers said it did little to encourage aspiring buyers.

House prices rose by 12.4% in May and by almost 11% over the last year but the rate of growth is slowing, new data show.

Soaring house costs that push people further away from their places of work due to unaffordable property prices are causing a form of “involuntary social engineering”, according to a brokers’ body.

Property prices soared by 12.5% in the last year and increased by as much as 17% in some parts of the country.

The ECB is inching closer to a time when it will end its huge bond-buying programme of pumping money into the financial system, which will signal the start of hikes in interest rates for the first time since the crisis, writes Eamon Quinn.

A new Government-backed mortgage scheme will not solve the severe shortage of homes and could further push prices up, it has been claimed

The average Irish household owes over €30,000 — making Ireland the fourth most indebted country in the EU, the Central Bank has found.

Leading mortgage experts have raised new questions over whether banks are offering the right of sort of deals for homeowners in distress almost a decade on from the onset of the financial crisis.

A leading mortgage advocate has said the rules restricting lending are not punishing first-time buyers and that the Central Bank should not change them significantly.

An association of financial brokers has criticised the Central Bank’s lending restrictions, describing the measures as “excessive” policies that are creating “a lost generation robbed of the opportunity to buy their own homes”.

Irish homeowners continue to pay the highest costs in Europe for their loans, while savers here get some of the worst rates, according to official figures.

Fines totalling €2.2m have been imposed on Bus Éireann, Meath County Council and Keltank Ltd for breaches of health and safety legislation arising out of the fatal crash in which five Meath schoolgirls died.