Building works are set to start up again after a 12-year hiatus on Lancaster Quay in Cork City with a €40m investment in 88 apartments aimed squarely at the high-end rental market.

A rehab charity has called on Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy to intervene to help open a stepdown facility which has been lying idle for a decade.

A man who was assaulted with slash hooks and hurleys said he thought he was going to be killed.

The head of a national suicide charity has urged the Government to respond to the suicide crisis in the same way it prioritised road safety which led to a reduction in road deaths.