What about us Irish who are stuck abroad because we can’t afford anywhere to live at home?
Housing policy should put people who need homes ahead of those who simply want another investment
Housing crisis
Owning a home now out of reach, most young people believe – research
PTSB report says younger adults believe renting or social housing will be their paths to getting a home
Louth has highest delivery of social housing in the State, new study shows
Galway city created fewest social houses in first six months of year, Hardware Association Ireland report shows
Properties to rent in Dublin fell by 18% despite new rules, report finds
New rent regulations triggered record 4.4 per cent hike in average market rents in first quarter
Planning in place for 80,000 Dublin homes, but work has started on less than half
33,623 housing units were being built in second quarter of year, new report will say
Removal of ‘unconscionable’ housing ban on Magnier and McManus Liffey Valley lands urged
Developer Michael O’Flynn makes fresh bid to rezone St Edmundsbury near Lucan for almost 500 homes
Appeal, wait, go abroad, repeat: what can you do if you don’t get your first CAO choice?
Students from the class of 2026 have more options than ever
Why do so many under-35s struggle to find work in Ireland’s booming economy?
Despite near full employment there were more than 80,000 people aged 34 and under unemployed in the second quarter of 2026
Advice for first years: ‘You don’t find yourself at university, you kind of create yourself there’
Bel Aghedo has completed her first year of a law degree at University of Galway
O’Flynn Group to appeal ‘incomprehensible’ refusal of 1,150-home development in Cork
Council says proposal contravenes zoning objectives
Are you too late for campus accommodation? What should you do now?
On-campus housing can be both expensive and difficult to secure
Ireland’s second-hand housing market under pressure as properties for sale drop
People seeking homes at more affordable end of market more dramatically impacted, Sherry FitzGerald says
Ireland’s housing policy needs greater coherence
We need more homes of every tenure: homes to buy, homes to rent, social homes and cost-rental homes
Glenveagh receives over €850,000 in government funding to modernise construction methods
The builder said the funding will go towards a number of key research and development activities
Irish house price growth falls to two-year low as market cools
Latest CSO Residential Property Price Index indicates prices in Dublin rose at annual rate of 4.6%
Improved Ber rating can boost home value, notes fresh analysis
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and MyHome analysed the final sale prices of 50,000 homes sold between 2023 and 2024
‘It’ll be nice when it’s a proper estate’: Breathing new life into a derelict development in Roscommon
Residents of Shannon Valley, where almost half the houses are boarded-up, are now hopeful for the future
Irish social housing law reforms could result in rise in rough sleeping, UN expert says
Special rapporteur’s intervention is welcomed by human rights and equality campaigners
‘We offered them free to the State’: 29 homes built without permission to be razed
But judge had criticised ‘unbelievable chutzpah’ of developers behind work at Chianti Park, South Dublin
Children deserve better than fancy landscaping – they need places to play
Many new housing developments have no useful green space for kids
The Irish Times view on the student accommodation crisis: no end in sight
Behind the cost problem lies the deeper failure of supply
Buying your first house in Ireland, 2026 vs 2006: ‘I borrowed seven times my income’
House prices weren’t cheap back in those Celtic Tiger days, but lending rules and housing supply were very different
Childcare shortage: State raises concerns over planned closure of Limerick creche
Owner has applied for planning permission to convert facility in Mungret into apartments
People can support more homes while having concerns about how Dunsink will function
Rather than blaming residents for raising legitimate concerns, we should demand that the State gets the planning right
What would happen if Ireland followed Vienna by designing housing with women in mind?
Housing and planning policy here largely designed by men and fail to address daily needs of rest of population
‘We have to deliver infrastructure at pace’: Uisce Éireann shifts focus to facilitate housing
‘If we’re to support this substantial housing target, we’ve got to do something different’
The Dunsink plan shows Ireland has a lesson to learn from the Soviets
Objections to Dunsink are not about what’s in the plan. They’re about what’s missing
Most of Ireland’s big targets on housing, infrastructure and families are stuff of fiction
Nobody believes these fantasy targets, but as they are still ‘policy’, everyone has to pretend they are relevant
Removal of rough sleepers for Belfast Fleadh and demolition of bunker under Hitler’s chancellery
Plus: Residents campaign against Fingal’s proposed Dunsink City Quarter and the €10,000-winner at the Dublin Horse Show
Dunsink: Is a Dublin county council planning to build 18,500 homes on a dump?
From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s Dunsink was the location of Dublin’s largest rubbish dump
‘This is not about stopping housing’: Why locals object to Dunsink town proposal
One of Dublin’s largest landbanks is set for a new town bigger than Bray. Its neighbours are concerned
There have been 46 housing tax measures since 2013 - and still the crisis rolls on
Housing incentives like Help-to-Buy, once introduced, are very hard to remove and all too often, the law of unintended consequences comes into play
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