New homes ‘totally out of reach’ for couples on average salaries
New homes remain “totally out of reach” for couples on average salaries in many areas, with prices forecast to continue rising over the next 12 months. The latest report from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland analyses the ability of couples with a joint income of €89,000 to buy a new home in five different counties.
Katie McCabe has emerged as a villainous figure down under after her running battles with Hayley Raso during Thursday’s 1-0 defeat to Australia. Some news media outlets, with characteristic Antipodean understatement, have declared her to be the “public enemy number one” after her series of jousts with the Real Madrid-bound winger, who was brought down by Marissa Sheva for the decisive 52nd minute penalty.
A landlord has won an appeal against a decision which would have seen him liable for “hundreds of thousands” of euro in compensation to households in a Cork city suburb over claims that he failed to address anti-social behaviour by his tenants.
The Conservatives have won the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, meaning Rishi Sunak avoids a clean sweep of defeats in this triple by-election test.Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time while he works out how to deal with Yevgeny Prighozin, says the director of the CIA. Mr Prigozhin is the head of the Wagner mercenary group who led a mutiny in Russia a month ago.