Mark Keenan

A flood of landlord-led home sales is sweeping across Ireland’s regional towns following changes to the Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) rules.

Rent controls don’t work. They just don’t. Historically they didn’t work in the former Soviet Union and they didn’t work in New York nor in San Francisco.

The Cow House, Blackberry Lane, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Maybe it was the time my parents lost me at age two that first showed up my fondness for dogs. One minute I was in my grandparents’ back garden playing with their dogs and the next, I was gone.

One in five people have experienced regret at least once a week about posts they put up on social media. This, at least, is the finding of a British survey of 1,000 people conducted in 2024 by two drinks companies. Ironic, given that a slew of other surveys show that being intoxicated is a key component in typing messages in the wee hours of the sort that cause regret the next day. The Global Drug Survey in 2021 actually showed Ireland at the top spot in the international charts for doing stuff when intoxicated that we later regret (ahead of Poland and New Zealand).

Claragh House, Ramelton, Co Donegal

Having lost his parliamentary seat, and with rebels drinking in his wine cellar at Newbury hall, there were few hurrays for Henry Pomeroy

Melfort on Dublin’s Shrewsbury Road was once inhabited by the accomplished Starkie family

The 16,000 sq ft Wicklow mansion with home cinema and ballroom has the equivalent of 16 average family homes inside its walls

Sky-high property prices and gentrification shouldn’t let us forget the legacy of the houses that saved tens of thousands of lives in Dublin