The housing market has long been correctly identified as one of the most important economic and social issues that Irish policymakers need to get on top of.

Renewing the Help-to-Buy scheme is "vital" to ensuring future growth in the housing market in Cork, according to estate agents Lisney.

That was the stark warning from the head of credit at MyMortgages.ie, Joe Sheahan

A Geographical Profile of Income in Ireland shows households in South County Dublin fare much better than households in counties such as Longford and Donegal, where dependency on social welfare payments is far higher and where two in five have a medical card.

More than one-sixth of all residential property bought in Ireland in 2018 was purchased by non-households.

Older people in Ireland are highly involved with their family and in society, but many of them face significant challenges in negotiating the built environment and in accessing public transport.

The trial use of street lamps as electric car charging points is expected to lead to a quicker national rollout of power-up options for drivers and an increased changeover to emission-free vehicles.

As many as 3.2m people will cast their vote in today’s eighth amendment referendum including 118,000 new voters, underlining the level of public importance being assigned to the historic vote.

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has given each of the 31 local authorities exact targets on the number of social houses they are expected to provide this year.

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

There is no early end in sight to house price increases and it will take “the next five, six, seven years” for new supply to come anywhere near to meeting pent-up demand, the Economic and Social Research Institute warns.

House prices “are only going one way” unless the lack of supply is resolved — as the cost of buying a home has surged by almost 13%.

The Government is to cap rental deposits at one month’s rent and has vowed to crack down on landlords in rent pressure zones who take advantage of tenants.

A semi-state body similar to Irish Water could be set up to deal with Ireland's housing crisis.

House and apartment prices increased by 10.5% to the end of April this year, the biggest rise since two years ago when prices rose by 11.2%, it has emerged.

House prices have increased by more than half since they bottomed out in early 2013, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

Residential property prices increased by 7.2% on average across the country in the year to August.

A Dublin property development firm is to contribute €1m to the Pyrite Resolution Board to assist with the cost of carrying out work on homes affected by sub-standing construction material.

The population is continuing to grow despite continued high levels of emigration, the first results from the 2016 Census show.

Well deserved.

A group representing Irish cyclists has criticised the number of fines issued by gardaí to motorists who parked in cycle lanes — despite a more than twofold increase in the amount of tickets handed down.

The Irish economy will face down a slew of threats facing the world economy and continue to post strong growth through 2017, the ESRI think tank has predicted.

Documents released to the Irish Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act have shown that private developers and house hunters were not alone in buying into the property bubble, writes Joe Leogue.

Local authorities are practically powerless to deal with problem tenants causing antisocial behaviour.

There is enough land zoned and potentially available in Dublin to provide housing for 269,000 people, although the planning permission system is acting as a constraint on the number of units being released on the market.

The controversial €600m Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin has overcome its final hurdle after city bosses secured a value-for-money certificate.

A homeless mother-of-two forced to seek assistance from Dún Laoghaire Rathdown council was offered a blood-stained mattress by the shelter she attended.

A senior Fianna Fáil TD has said "there is no impediment" to going into government with Sinn Féin after the next general election.

Fianna Fáil have said they are only fielding one candidate in the local elections in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, despite Mary Hanafin submitting her nomination papers.

It is understood that the former Fianna Fáil minister Mary Hanafin is making a return to the political sphere.

Dubliners will find out tonight if they will get the option of electing their own mayor.

A quarter of all homes in the Republic have been valued at less than €100,000 by their owners for the purpose of paying the property tax — more than three times the estimate used by the Government in designing the tax.

Businessman Jim Kennedy “emphatically” denied ever giving money to ex-lobbyist Frank Dunlop, the Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

More than 387,000 households owe a total of €38.7m on the household charges according to figures from Phil Hogan, the environment minister.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has the highest proportion of college graduates in the country, while Limerick City has the lowest.

Councillors in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area of Co. Dublin have this evening voted in favour of marriage equality at their November meeting.

The Government has allocated €100m to provide more than 800 social houses over the next two years.

New results from last year’s census show the labour force has increased by almost 6% since 2006.

Two beaches fell below minimum hygiene standards for swimmers in the latest study of the country’s bathing areas.

Two out of three Irish people live on just 2.4% of the total land available, according to latest census figures.

Donegal has the worst planning record in the country, An Taisce has claimed.

Almost 15% of all houses in Ireland were empty on the night of the census.

ON census night, there were 1,994,845 housing units in the State — up 12.72% from 2006, when there were 1,769,613. Some 1,649,408 of these units were occupied by the usual resident.

The number of Travellers in Ireland increased by 32% between 2006 and 2011 — but only 12% live in caravans or mobile homes.