Ireland

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  41 mins ago

  4,380 housing units granted planning permission under fast-track rules over past year

  New Government fast-track planning rules have delivered planning permission for more than 4,300 residential units over the past year.

• 2 hours, 52 mins ago
  

  Call for government to regulate Airbnb to help renters

  There have been calls for the Government to impose regulations on Airbnb as new figures show that the hospitality company has had its busiest ever summer in Ireland.

• 3 hours, 1 mins ago
  

  Woman dies after suspected carbon monoxide gas leak

  Paramedics treated a man and a woman at the scene and transferred them to Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh.

• 3 hours, 28 mins ago
  

  Complaints against taxis surge as passengers report 'smoking' driver, 'tatty seats' and smelly cabs

  One smoking taxi driver and a taxi that had “an offensive smell” with “tatty” seats are just two of the 629 complaints received by the National Transport Authority (NTA) concerning taxis in the first six months of this year.

• 3 hours, 44 mins ago
  

  Fianna Fáil says Shane Ross lacks 'the will' to implement cycling legislation

  The opposition party’s transport spokesman Robert Troy said today that Mr Ross had not pushed through the legislation aimed at improving road safety as promised.