The second-most senior housing official at Tipperary County Council is letting two properties she owns to her local authority employer for social housing.

Leo Varadkar, Simon Coveney, Eoghan Murphy and Paul Hyde have at least one thing in common: they all played crucial roles in implementing a classically neoliberal thesis that solutions to Ireland’s housing emergency would be found by relying on – and directly facilitating – the market.

Landlords across Ireland are using Facebook groups to exchange advice on how to circumvent laws restricting rent increases, evict long-term tenants and identify the most lucrative demographics to whom they can rent their properties.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military personnel have trained in the Irish Military College over the last six years.

Galway County Council says it won’t take any action against the son of a controversial Fianna Fáil councillor who illegally built a house on land he didn’t own – which had been repossessed by a bank and sold to a close friend of his councillor father.