A housing survey, carried out by Sinn Féin has highlighted the inadequacy of the shared ownership scheme in the Dublin area. The survey found just 12 properties in the four Dublin local authorities that came in within the budgets of the shared ownership scheme.
Angela Phelan's latest Who's Who in Ireland, a list of influential Irish people has attracted some attention for its inclusions and omissions. The Irish Independent gossip columnist was herself poltically influential when she innocently caused the Labour-Fianna Fáil government to fall. By Emma Browne.
An additional €50m a year needs to be injected into the non-national road network in order to maintain it, according to Fine Gael.
There is individual and institutional discrimination towards non-EU nationals seeking further and third-level education in Ireland. Also there is inconsistency in relation to the fees they are charged.
The recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling which stated that an employee could be paid more than a colleague if they had a longer length of service was reported as discriminatory towards women taking maternity leave and a back-track on equality rights. But in fact the ruling had nothing to do with maternity leave and was a clarification and improvement of case law in the area that had been established 17 years previously.
Emma Browne speaks to a 25-year-old male involved in street racing in Dublin
Figures supplied by Minister for Justice Michael McDowell about the use of padded cells in Irish prisons clash significantly with data contained in a Freedom of Information application obtained by Village.
An estate-management company is charging residents a legal fee of €25 in order to defend any potential court cases taken against them by those same residents. Last month a resident from Castlecurragh Estate in Mulhuddart won a small claims case against Castlecurragh Property Management Company on the basis that she had paid her management fee and the company was failing to supply some of the services. She was entitled to a partial refund of her fee. The management company are now appealing the decision to the Circuit Court.
Arms manufacturer Raytheon has confirmed to Derry City Council that their Derry base is involved in developing military software for the Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Nicky Gogan on 4D Art's innovative version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, showing as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, in which many of the parts are played by virtual actors