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Rents in Sligo and Leitrim continue to rise as government fails renters

Sinn Féin TD for Sligo Leitrim Martin Kenny has called for emergency action to reduce rents in the private rental sector as the latest Daft.ie rent report shows rents increasing by 16% in Sligo, and 20% in Leitrim in the last 12 months. He has urged ...

14 Aug 2023 at 15:00

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Harris and McDonald clash over new housing targets ahead of election

The coalition’s new housing targets are too low, Mary Lou McDonald has claimed in a fiery pre-election row with the Taoiseach. The Sinn Fein leader said the Government has gone “backwards” on housing by delivering fewer homes so far in 2024 when ...

05 Nov 2024 at 16:23

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Government admits housing targets are too low

Labour's Local Area Representative in Leitrim has condemned the Government's failure to act on housing. This comes following the Taoiseach's admission that housing targets are too low. Bernie Linnane, Leitrim Labour Party Local Area ...

10 Nov 2023 at 19:00

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Irish professor's petition to dump vulture funds gets 40,000 signatures

An assistant professor in social policy at Maynooth University has said it's "not too late" to get rid of vulture funds. Dr Rory Hearne's made the comments on Newstalk FM after delivering a petition which amassed 40,000 signatures ...

05 Oct 2021 at 15:33

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Government looking at ways to accelerate housebuilding, Martin says

The rate of homebuilding in Ireland could increase to 40,000 annually within a couple of years, Tanaiste Micheal Martin has predicted. Mr Martin said the Government has to keep looking at ways to accelerate housebuilding in the ...

30 Dec 2023 at 00:01

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Market rents in Leitrim continue to soar amid falling availability of homes

Daft.ie's latest quarterly report on the country's rental market shows a continued escalation in rent costs in Leitrim and across Ireland. According to the report, market rents in Connacht have increased 7.7% year-on-year, ...

13 Nov 2024 at 10:55

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Dail returns to usual business after speaking time row resolved

Politicians focused on Storm Eowyn, Donald Trump and the housing crisis as the Irish parliament returned to normality after a disruptive row over speaking time. The opposition – who won the bitter dispute after the ...

05 Feb 2025 at 18:24

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Government only offers parents' box rooms, rip-off rents or emigration says Mary Lou McDonald

With the General Election expected to be announced this week, Mary Lou McDonald has told the Dáil that people across Ireland are being forced to live with the Government's "joint failure" in addressing the housing ...

05 Nov 2024 at 16:32

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‘It is delusion’: Opposition hits out at Housing Minister in testy Dail debate

The Government’s housing plan has “failed” and housing targets are “a fiction”, opposition politicians have said. Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien and senior opposition politicians argued over whether the Housing ...

24 Oct 2024 at 13:56

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Taoiseach says we 'cannot turn a blind eye' to migrant encampments

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said that Ireland must reconsider what it can offer migrants in the future and that an 'honest and truthful discussion' needs to be had about it. The number of tents has grown once ...

13 May 2024 at 14:54

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Donald Trump backs Micheal Martin to solve Ireland’s housing crisis

Donald Trump has backed Irish premier Micheal Martin to solve Ireland’s housing crisis. During his Oval Office meeting with the Taoiseach, the US president said the housing issue had arisen because Ireland ...

12 Mar 2025 at 18:10

National News

"Listen to the people" - Heated words exchanged in Dáil on housing

Heated words on the housing crisis were exchanged this afternoon during Leaders' Questions. The exchange occurred as a student protest on lack of accommodation and rising rent costs took place outside the ...

23 Sept 2021 at 16:47

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