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Sunday 25 October 2020
The Bill will now be sent to the President for early signature.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced this evening that Ireland will move to Level 5 restrictions for six weeks.
The final decision will be made by Cabinet in the coming days.
Six boat owners had been served eviction notices and told their homes would be removed by crane if they did not move them.
Minister of State Malcolm Noonan said that he is hoping to establish a mediation process.
A crane is set to remove the houseboats tomorrow.
The emergency measures for renters were agreed at a Cabinet meeting today.
Data scraped from site shows widespread use of ‘domestic’ units as short-term lets.
Many officers are unclear as to how they are expected to operate in these incidents.
The bank was criticised for using private security agents to forcibly remove three siblings from their Roscommon home.
The man was arrested earlier today following a search of a house in the Killoe area of Longford.
A proposed new EU Directive aims to develop a secondary market for non-performing loans and poses a serious threat to the rights of borrowers and consumers, writes Matt Carthy.
The ‘trêve hivernale’ has been a part of French law since 1956.
Gardaí are investigating an incident of criminal damage and assault that occurred on Sunday morning.
Varadkar said TDs who landlords are able to make a distinction between their personal interests and the public interest,
The new owners of the Leeside Apartments say they’re set to substantially refurbish the apartment block.
“They are chasing people away from apartments and smashing things.”
The rent uncertainty of today is not only widespread – but goes deep through the ages of Irish history.
Speaking about his new Housing Co-op Bill, Norris said people appear to have forgotten that “eviction” is a dirty word in Ireland.
People living in The Strand apartments had been facing eviction.
A Council of Europe committee also found Ireland is not providing Travellers with adequate accommodation.
They had been evicted from a halting site in January.
This comes in a week in which there has been outcry over the treatment of tenants in Tyrrelstown.
Residents say about 30 people live at the abandoned property.
Karen says she found herself in this situation because there is no social housing available and the rent supplement is just too low.
The O’Halloran girls fought off an attempted eviction from their home in Bodyke.
The government has previously said it would be too costly to carry out repairs to the ageing properties.
The organisers were asking the auctioneers to agree that no properties will be offered for sale where there is a legal dispute.
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett said that tenants have “absolutely no recourse” if their landlord becomes insolvent.
A NUI Galway researcher is to lead the €1 million study on evictions in 28 EU member States.
Everyone’s been talking about a violent assault in Galway, jobs at Twitter and house repossessions.
Forced evictions are placing Roma families in “highly vulnerable” situations, according to UN human rights experts.
The protesters are demonstrating against the eviction of Brendan and Asta Kelly from their home in Killiney yesterday.
Brendan Kelly spoke to Spin 1038 in the minutes before bailiffs forced him and his wife from their Killiney home.
Human Rights Watch says that homeowners have been forcibly evicted and their houses demolished in the area where the arena for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is being built.
Nine things to know this morning…
Travellers are getting plenty of media attention at the moment – and it doesn’t help the families who’ll be splintered by evictions, writes Ben Archibald of Pavee Point.
The eviction of residents at the UK’s biggest illegal travellers’ site has been delayed until at least Thursday.
Travellers had barricaded the halting site and vowed to resist evictions that were to get underway today prior to a court ruling.
Threshold has called for the new government to amend laws so as that tenants’ rights will be protected.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
A couple of afternoon showers
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Min: 7 °C
Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
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Min: 5 °C
Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
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Min: 6 °C
