Firefighters have called for an urgent review of all public and residential buildings built over the past decade in direct response to serious fire safety fears in Celtic Tiger-era schools.

The Government is receiving legal advice on what action to take over revelations six Celtic Tiger-era schools have been found to have serious fire safety fears.

Firefighters have called for an urgent review of all public and residential buildings built over the past decade in direct response to serious fire safety fears in Celtic Tiger-era schools.

It was December 2014 and, with 331 families in temporary accommodation, an Emergency Homeless Summit was called, writes Elaine Loughlin.

In a special report, Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe looks at how people are still suffering despite Government attempts to fix the housing crisis. Housing Minister Simon Coveney and CEO of the Peter McVerry Trust Pat Doyle also have their say on this crucial issue facing the country.

It’s too early to say whether recent Government attempts to fix the housing crisis will work. In the meantime, many people are still suffering, writes Juno McEnroe.

The State spent more than €19,000 for every homeless person in the country last year on services and supports alone.

Noel Baker looks at a timeline of events that has led to the Housing Action Plan.

Fifteen men were yesterday arrested at the funeral of a dissident republican in Northern Ireland.

Fears are growing among local residents after a suspected dissident republican was murdered in his pub in the first of two gun killings in Dublin within hours of each other last night.

They’re the fastest built houses in the history of the State so possibly the security man who was darting from one to the next liberally spraying them with air freshener in advance of the ministerial visit was trying to cover up the lingering odour of construction crew sweat.

It has been reported that modular housing in Ballymun, originally due to be completed in December, will now not be available until May.

Focus Ireland, and other homelessness organisations, have expressed “alarm” at further likely delays in the delivery of modular housing units in the capital, because the initial tender has been withdrawn.

Nama is to build 20,000 homes and provide new office space as part of a €5.6bn Dublin Docklands project.

A homeless charity says plans to introduce modular homes, while welcome, must not detract from the need to tackle the rent issue.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that the arrests of six Dublin men accused of IRA membership at a house in Tallaght were unlawful.

A Dublin man who was arrested for alleged membership of the IRA has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court.

A court has ruled against surveillance gardaí who claimed that revealing the number of officers who observe suspects from cars would allow other suspects to know which cars “to look for”.

Members of the public were excluded from the Special Criminal Court today during evidence by members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit in the trial of eight Dublin men accused of IRA men membership in 2013.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that members of the public should be excluded from the court when six members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit give evidence in the trial of eight Dublin men accused of IRA membership.

The Army Bomb Disposal team has made safe a viable device found in north Dublin.

A 23-year-old Dubliner has been found guilty of killing a father of three and injuring two of his children as well as their uncle following his daughter’s Junior Cert result celebrations.

Tragic pensioner Peggy Mangan died from hypothermia having walked for 23 kilometres, an inquest has heard.

A man has described seeing his gut hanging out of his body after a confrontation following his niece’s Junior Certificate result celebrations two years ago.

A brother and sister have described the moment their father was killed during a confrontation following her Junior Certificate result celebrations two years ago.

Gardaí in Dublin will receive the results of a post mortem examination carried out on the body of Michael Devoy later this morning.

A man who took a personal injury action claiming he suffered a debilitating back injury in a car crash in Aug 2009 now faces up to 10 years in prison after DVDs emerged of him taking part in cage-fighting.

Eight Dublin men charged with membership of the IRA have been served with a book of evidence at the Special Criminal Court.

A 30-year-old man is being questioned after gardaí found a gun and drugs worth more than €20,000 at a house in Dublin.

Eight men accused of membership of the IRA have been granted legal aid at the Special Criminal Court.

Eight Dublin men have appeared before an Easter Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged with membership of the IRA.

Two Dublin men have appeared in court charged in connection with the robbery of an off license in the west of the city.

Two youths charged with the manslaughter of a man who died after an assault in north Dublin on St Patrick’s Day last year were served with books of evidence today and returned for trial.

Two youths have been charged today with the manslaughter of a man who died after an assault in north Dublin on St Patrick’s Day last year.

A five-year-old boy on a weekend break with his parents and younger sibling in Killarney, Co Kerry, died after getting into difficulties in a hotel swimming pool on the morning he was due to go back to Dublin, the inquest into his death heard yesterday in Tralee.

A Ballymun resident who started using cannabis to deal with pain following a serious head injury has received a six-year sentence with the final two and a half years suspended for drugs possession.

A Ballymun man who bit the tip off a work colleague’s nose in an unprovoked assault at a Christmas party has had his sentenced adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.