Irish Examiner view: An out-of-touch commitment to rural planning

In the context of confronting climate collapse, the idea of once-off housing looks ever-more unsustainable and unwise

Fine Gael junior housing minister Peter Burke told a Macra na Feirme meeting he did not see one-off housing making up less than 25% of home-building. Picture: Dan Linehan

One of the benefits of the pandemic is that it reintroduced many of us to the charms of this small island. 

Staycations were an excuse to revisit old stamping grounds, to retravel old, well-loved roads.