Explainer: How 'deeply controversial' planning law changes could lead to 'years of litigation'

The Big MEP Questionnaire: What do our Irish MEPs think of the EU?

Irish speakers are leaving Gaeltacht areas due to problems with planning and a lack of housing

“When we left, the island probably lost more than we did. Because they lost a whole family. Gone.”

"A boiling pot": Growing pains of the Irish language in Northern Ireland

How do you solve a problem like Ireland's cows?

“A farmer will ask himself the question: If it’s expected of me to reduce, how can I sustain an income as a result of me reducing my numbers?”

'An ongoing risk': Hep A outbreak at council site left five Traveller children hospitalised

Ireland has big targets for wind energy - but getting there won't be a breeze

Almost one third of Ireland’s electricity comes from wind generation, with just 8% coming from fossil fuels like coal and oil.

270 Irish people have applied to be an astronaut - so will we see an Irish person in space?

“That is what speaks to me about being an astronaut – it gives me the opportunity to make the world better and to inspire other people to do the same.”

'There might be a tightening of the belt': What's the future for Ireland's public transport post-Covid?

With fewer people commuting to work, how will public transport finances and services look in future?

Local needs? Or national priorities? The problem with building new roads in Ireland

“We continue to build more roads and widen more roads and the congestion doesn’t improve the traffic, it just fills the extra space that’s created.”

What is - and isn't - being done about Ireland's 180,000 vacant and derelict buildings

“It cannot make sense for the economy and it cannot make sense for the people who live here.”

'Forgotten, we feel like garbage': Housing policies exclude Travellers, migrants and asylum seekers