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Vacant

Tax

Government rejects idea that taxing holiday homes could help deal with the housing crisis

6 Jun 2023

18.6k

derelict

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

28 Jun 2021

39.7k

vacant properties

Banks sitting on hundreds of vacant properties as pressure ramps up on government to get radical

25 May 2021

62.8k

Housing

Owners of vacant properties urged to make them available for homeless people ahead of Christmas

28 Oct 2019

33.1k

noteworthy

Nearly 100 State buildings managed by Office of Public Works lying idle around the country

23 Aug 2019

23.9k

kilmainham road

Justice Department hit with €27,000 levy by Dublin City Council for vacant site it is trying to transfer to the council

18 Jun 2019

19.1k

not the solution

Labour's Brendan Howlin says Take Back The City is something 'he wouldn't be associated with'

17 Sep 2018

24.8k

Vacant

A long-shuttered Dublin city centre building is getting a facelift

28 Mar 2018

53.2k

empty shops

'It's a beautiful place to live and work': Doing business in Ireland's 'most vacant' town

9 Sep 2017

17.1k

unused

This town has the highest rate of empty shops and offices in Ireland

7 Feb 2017

63.5k

The Daily Poll

Poll: Would taxing vacant sites make a difference to the housing crisis?

20 Dec 2016

14.6k

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carrot and stick

Green Party thinks taxing vacant sites could help tackle housing shortage

20 Dec 2016

8.9k

'Rural communities deserve better': Two in three IDA properties vacant

29 Oct 2016

10.5k

Property

Major end-of-year property auction pulls in €35 million

18 Dec 2015

17.9k

granny flats

Priests being sent forms to identify vacant properties for refugees

7 Sep 2015

29.9k

171

Nurses

Epilepsy unit at Beaumont Hospital closed because of staff shortages

28 Aug 2015

13.2k

crisis situation

Building in central Dublin occupied without permission by homeless group

3 Jul 2015

28.2k

Wanted

6 men who could fill Leinster's vacant head coach position

22 May 2015

27.0k

community

Squatters have another week in the derelict Grangegorman complex

5 May 2015

15.7k

art makers

Here's how you turn vacant buildings into creative spaces

16 Feb 2014

19.0k

keep the lights on

House-sitters bunk down in hotels, pubs and convents to keep vandals at bay

28 Jan 2014

21.4k

Tourism

Communities can take back their town with pop-up museums in vacant spaces

2 Dec 2013

6.6k

Pretty Vacant

Why is a former AIB building bought by the State ten years ago still empty? – Patrick Nulty TD asks

13 Jun 2013

11.1k

Jobs

Limerick company launches scholarship to fight skills shortage

27 Dec 2012

6.7k

sitting vacant

More than 1 in 10 business properties are lying empty

21 Aug 2012

4.5k

prettyvacant

Virtual 3D gallery wraps around empty Dublin shop unit

4 Jul 2012

6.3k

Primary Care

Disused garda stations to be used as primary health care facilities - Minister

2 Apr 2012

3.2k

Vacant

No LOI football in Terryland Park as GUST vote against mergers

25 Jan 2012

564

Vacant

Keano still in the mix for Foxes job as Lee Clark staying put

3 Nov 2011

1.1k

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