1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (407+ words) One has to imagine that somewhere in the basement of the Department of Finance there’s a large, industrial-sized recycling centre for public policies. How else can we explain the re-emergence of a proposal to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (327+ words) Dublin’s drivers will not miss the regular sight of clamping vans on the city centre streets. Something in the region of 125 drivers have their vehicles clamped each day and incur a release fee of €124. Q-Park, the private company that operates…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (316+ words) “Cork’s Kilmainham” is how teacher, history podcaster and former Sinn Féin councillor in Cork city, Eolan Ryng describes Cork’s Military Detention Barracks (also known as the old Cork prison). Ryng is campaigning against Department of Justice plans to demolish the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (268+ words) The Irish Times Language tests for new citizens The fact that Ireland is the only EU country that doesn’t apply some test speaks for itself Sir, – Peadar Tóibín, with his headline alone, won the debate with Neil Bruton…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (170+ words) France bans phones in high schools Video: Naomi O'Leary Editor: Eoin Ronayne Catch up on the Inside Business podcast on all podcast platforms. Jack Power was speaking to Pat Leahy for the Inside Politics Podcast. Are you a graduate applying…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (239+ words) Sir, – I note the Office of the Planning Regulator’s warning to South Dublin County Council over its decision to not rezone lands at St Edmundsbury, Lucan (“Council warned not to block rezoning of Liffey valley lands”, August 24th). St Edmundsbury is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (688+ words) In Irish common law, the charming euphemism for being a pimp is “living off immoral earnings”. It would be ridiculously crude to suggest that Ireland pimps itself out to the social media oligarchs. But the State nonetheless gives the same…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (564+ words) Councillors in June voted against rezoning lands at St Edmundsbury in the Liffey valley near Lucan; Finnstown Castle, between Lucan and Adamstown; and Coldcut Road, south of the Liffey Valley shopping centre. The council’s chief executive Colm Ward had proposed…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (544+ words) The O’Flynn Group, development partners of McManus and Magnier, is urging the council to reverse a June decision to block housing development on the lands at St Edmundsbury on the southside of the river Liffey, close to Lucan and just…...