A new report has found significant inequalities in the supply of primary, community, and long-term healthcare services across counties in Ireland.

Many of the great stars of the 1980s are disappearing. Last week alone, we bade goodbye to businessman Feargal Quinn and to actor Ken Kercheval, the man who played the long suffering rival of JR Ewing, Cliff Barnes, on the TV soap, Dallas.

House prices are continuing to rise, with the average now more than €260,000, up 5.9% on the same time last year.

Cairn Homes is to hold off on progressing its Cork-based landbank for another couple of years as it looks to maintain its entire focus on the Greater Dublin area.

The construction of a controversial waste water treatment facility in North Dublin has been delayed.

Overnight water restrictions will apply to almost every part of Greater Dublin from Monday.

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Dublin Bus could be launching 24-hour bus routes later this year.

Beware the intersection: A study of road collisions in Dublin shows where and when crashes are more likely to occur.

Almost 90% of vacant houses and apartments offered to local authorities have been rejected.

Improving our infrastructure remains a huge challenge. Failing to re-evaluate the now discredited idea of decentralisation and jobs dispersion is adding to it, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Development will stagnate while proposed city boundary extension is implemented, says O’Flynn.

It remains to be seen if Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar is capable of shaking off the complacency

Ireland is set for an office-building boom to host financial services firms relocating due to Brexit.

The self-styled ‘Ronaldo’ of the Irish property scene, Greg Kavanagh is not giving up in his battle for a contentious €15m development proceeding at Mount Merrion in south Dublin.

Homeless children put up in a hotel are banned from playing in the garden but dogs are allowed, an Oireachtas watchdog has heard.

Solving the housing and homeless crisis will cost €10bn, campaigners have told politicians.

There is no financial incentive for builders to engage in house building as costs are too high and property prices too low, according to the country’s chartered surveyors.

FINGLAS native and quintessential Dub, Dermot Bolger, has dedicated his life to literature in both a public and a private manner. 

SEE them strolling along the platforms of Heuston Station with smiles so wide it almost hurts to watch because you’re sure their faces are hurting too. They’re announcing the Metro North project which they themselves binned four years ago.

In the run-up to celebrating 100 years as an independent country, there will be many debates about how to mark the progress achieved by our Republic, writes Joe Gill.

SME confidence took a knock during the first quarter of the year, as firms have become concerned about the length of time the economy is taking to recover, a survey shows.

Three counties — Kerry, Longford, and Roscommon — have water supply infrastructure that is in an unacceptable condition, according to a report issued by Engineers Ireland.

The country needs more office space, more urban housing, increased construction activity and employment — and greater investment and activity at a regional level, Patricia Daly, president of the 5,000-member strong Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) told last week’s annual dinner, attended by 1,250 guests.

Plans to locate a Starbucks to a much loved listed building in Cork has provoked outrage in some quarters. Ed Power looks at yet another US behemoth that is loved and loathed.

A new transport strategy is being drawn up for the Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow areas.

A sustainable and fair housing policy is needed to address society’s needs, writes Dr Rory Hearne

Rail passengers are facing further disruption this morning in the second day of strike action at Iarnród Éireann.

If we are to solve the housing crisis, the State must lever private finance but also provide adequate infrastructure, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Dublin is expected to run out of vacant housing stock this year, according to the ESRI.

The ESRI has said the country will not need to build as many new houses as previously predicted as there is still a large volume of vacant properties in many counties.

The new Civil Court of Appeal, which should be up and running by October, will free up the Supreme Court, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

There is life outside the ever-growing conurbations, but locals must share and stand together, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Waste water from towns and villages in counties Cork, Donegal, Wicklow, Galway, Clare, Mayo, Waterford, Wexford and Dublin is putting Irish bathing waters and rivers at risk as raw sewage isn’t being removed.

Conor Power suggests rising house prices could be a good thing and bemoans what he sees as our reverse negativity

Below-cost selling and the rise of the discounters is hitting family retailers hard, writes Kyran FitzGerald.