Huge €1.3bn north Dublin sewage plant gets go ahead after seven years in planning system
Delays to facility repeatedly cited as restricting development of new housing across the Dublin region
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Drought status declared in parts of 12 counties as heatwave conditions expected this week
Met Eireann predicts week of rising temperatures, topping out at a potential 28 degrees this Friday
Heat wave advice: How to look after your pet, garden and family in the hot weather
Among experts’ tips are to walk your dog in the morning, keep hydrated, but never water plants in middle of the day
Ireland’s competitiveness on downward trend just as major challenges move into focus, says report
Planning delays, high cost of doing business and ‘unacceptably low’ productivity among builders are all harming the country, NCPC says
Ringfence €500m annually for water services, builders tell Government
Construction Industry Federation budget submission warns on infrastructure gap
Drinking water is safe but problems persist with THMs, lead and other contaminants, says EPA
Moves by Uisce Éireann to remove lead from supply networks and houses ‘is still far too slow’
‘We’ve dropped the ball’: Ireland’s housing targets will be missed because the water, electricity and roads required can’t be delivered
Badly needed scaling up of house-building is threatened by transport and utilities projects stuck in the planning pipeline. What is to be done?
Cork LGBT+ Pride festival organiser gets injunction lifting suspension over misconduct claims
Kery Mullaly claims he was suspended last September without any notice over eight misconduct allegations, which he denies
There is a way to unblock Ireland’s infrastructural logjam
The Victorian model of having the legislature authorise major infrastructural development is the answer
Semi-state CEOs: What do they earn and should they be paid more?
New Government structures mean many heads of commercial State companies will seek pay packet increase following review
Swimming banned at Dollymount Strand due to suspected sewage discharge after heavy rainfall
Deputy Lord Mayor criticises inadequate alert system and Uisce Éireann response
Ireland is like the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat: a wet country that has too little water
We also have more than 15,500 homeless people and 160,000 vacant homes
State utility firms told Minister chief executive pay limits posed ‘serious risks’ to organisations
Pay review group told there were concerns about the potential loss of chief executives at critical time for companies
Housing emergency? Ireland is not even acting at the level of mildly urgent
We are heading for a decade of failure to get to grips with a growing social disaster. That’s long enough to fix things, even in Ireland
Fixing ‘known’ water system issues will take until 2050 and cost up to €60bn, says Uisce Éireann
Water constraints to slow housebuilding for next 25 years, says Aontú leader Tóibín
Housebuilding in Dublin to stall within three years if wastewater plant not delivered
Uisce Éireann's starkest warning yet on water constraints follows Government’s revised 2030 housing target
Renters forking out €2,000 per month are paying the price for water charges debacle
As the housing shortage cuts into economic competitiveness and social solidarity, the consequences of bad decisions are more apparent
Water utility warns on reforms needed for housing targets: ‘The scale of the task is immense’
Uisce Éireann calls for range of planning and legal issues to be addressed to tackle housing crisis, document sent to Government shows
Water supplies ‘on a knife edge’ with warm and dry weather set to continue, Uisce Éireann warns
Minimal amounts of rainfall forecast up to next weekend, though more substantial showers may then follow
Water failings the latest target in blame game over housing supply
What is going on with Irish government's will they, won’t they approach to tax giveaways?
Chronic inability to build anything big in the State is baked into the system
New Oireachtas committee needs continued failure in big projects if it is to function effectively for its members
Irish Rail seeks ‘maximum’ number of homes for new Dublin suburb, despite Uisce Éireann warning on capacity
Ballyboggan master plan should provide for ‘intensive’ residential development, Irish Rail and NTA say
Ireland weather: Sun here to stay for next week with temperatures hitting 25-degree high, but no talk of hosepipe bans
Eastern regions will benefit from an occasion moderate breeze during the warm spell
‘Constrained’ water supply jeopardises new Dublin suburb with 6,000 planned homes
Uisce Éireann says population growth in the capital requires the construction of a new sewage plant
‘Rigid’ apartment design guidelines could be revisited, says Simon Harris
Inside Politics: Simon Harris says home building must maintain high standards while catering to different needs of homebuyers
What is the water quality like at your local beach? Use our table to check
EPA warns local authorities on contamination from ‘high rainfall events’
Sinn Féin accuses Government of misleading public over ‘additional’ Uisce Éireann funding
€1bn allocation did not provide any further funding, utility‘s chair told former minister
Uisce Éireann’s €1bn budget funding ‘not additional’ and ‘contradicts’ impression given to public
In letter sent to former minister for housing Darragh O’Brien after budget, utility’s chairman said money would provide no extra firepower in coming years
‘They need bigger reservoirs’: Hosepipe ban in Kells sparks call for improved infrastructure
Co Meath town facing six-week ban on using hosepipes to water plants, fill paddling pools or wash cars due to dry conditions
Jack Chambers criticises people who object to housing on basis it affects their ‘area’s character’
Minister outlines plan for taskforce to tackle ‘some of the slowest systems of delivery’ in world
Housing Minister James Browne: ‘If we don’t get this right over the next four to seven months, we’re going to be in serious, serious trouble’
The solution to Ireland’s housing crisis is ‘more supply and it is my job to get that supply moving’, says the Minister for Housing as he answers questions about how he intends to do that
How Arklow turned a major sewage problem into an opportunity to build something spectacular
Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant, designed by Clancy Moore, is the first in the world with an architect as an integrated part of the design team
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