Adam Higgins

6 days ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

ACCOMMODATION websites like Airbnb and Booking.com could be hit with major fines under new rules to clamp down on short term lets in Ireland. The Government this week signed off on proposals to limit short term lets to 90 days per year in areas with a population of more than 10,000 people. Coalition leaders believe that this could result in thousands of homes that are currently used as short term let tourist accommodation coming back into the long term rental market to ease the housing crisis.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

A GRANDMOTHER, her three children and grandchild are on the verge of becoming homeless due to a lack of funding for the tenant in situ scheme.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

HOMEOWNERS were given a welcome boost after the European Central Bank slashed their interest rates by 0.25 per cent with further cuts on the way. The ECB sets the rate at which banks can borrow with their overall interest rate now down to 2.25 per cent. This is the seventh consecutive rate cut from the ECB from a high of 4.5 per cent in late 2023. The rate reduction will immediately impact tens of thousands of people on tracker mortgages who will see their repayments fall from next month.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

PUBLIC inquiries and investigations are taking too long and costing the State too much money, Taoiseach Micheal Martin has claimed in the wake of the furious reaction to the Grace case report. The long awaited commission of investigation into the care of a woman with intellectual disabilities at a foster home in the South East of the country was published this week. After eight years and almost €14 million, the report found that ‘Grace’ had been physically neglected and failed by the State.

1 week ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

ENERGY Minister Darragh O’Brien has responded to Tommy Tiernan after the comedian objected to a plan to build 30 enormous wind turbines off the west coast of Ireland. A company had applied to build a wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Galway that would produce enough energy to power 350,000 homes. The Sceirde Rocks wind farm had received significant pushback from local people with Tommy Tiernan among a group of people who lodged an objection with the authorities.