HOME hunters in and around Cork’s Bishopstown suburb must be more than slightly conflicted right now, given the sudden choice of really well-located homes dotted around...
Carlsberg has agreed to buy British soft drinks maker Britvic for £3.3 billion, a move the Danish brewer said would forge a UK beverage “powerhouse” and...
FANCY a designer handbag without feeling guilty about treating yourself? Well, that’s exactly what you can have if you visit the Temperance Hall in Kinsale on...
Thornton Hall – the site of a proposed ‘super prison’ – remains on a list of the State’s potential future prison projects. The north Co. Dublin...
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The State’s inspector of mental services, Prof Jim Lucey, is speaking about taxation and learning to drive. It would not be good enough, he says, to...
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Homeless people would value and participate in exercise programmes that are accessible and safe for them, according to a new study by Trinity College Dublin (TCD)...
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Naturally, given the Treaty’s status, the pundits were almost unanimous in tipping Limerick to beat Cork so we’ll give them a pass there but the experts...
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Looser mortgage lending rules have been cited as one of the factors driving the latest surge in house prices. According to property website MyHome.ie, house asking...
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Recommendations aimed at creating a “more coherent and uniform” approach to sentencing by District Court judges for domestic violence offences have been adopted by a Judicial...
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Change may be all around us but one aspect of modern life finally shows signs of inching towards stability: the office. City buildings worldwide are still...
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Margaret Barrett is a former mortgage manager with Bank of Ireland and now runs Mortgage Navigators, which has specific experience working with professional contractors and self-employed...
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They’re coming for your chopping board next. Yep, you can’t even make a sandwich these days without being in the wrong. Plastic chopping boards are the...
