Data from the ESRI and the Residential Tenancies Board show rents increased by their highest annual rate between April 1st and June 30th this year.

A protest took place last Friday night over plans to accommodate asylum seekers in Dromahair, Co Leitrim

The survey found 62 per cent of Irish electric vehicle drivers plan to buy another EV as their next car purchase.

Here are the stories making headlines this Thursday.

It covers attacks on ATMs across Northern Ireland from February to March.

The Taoiseach said the conference is ‘a crucial opportunity’.

The incident to understood to have happened at a bar in the north of the city.

That is according to Independent Clare TD, Michael McNamara, who made his comment at a Clare Joint Policing Committee (JPC) where he asked “was anything other than drugs ever sold from this building?”

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said the new legislation will also give gardai greater access to CCTV

New accounts filed by TJX Ireland UC show that in spite of the increase in profits, pre-tax profits declined by 28 per cent to €4 million in the 12 months to the end of January 28th this year

The Minister for Justice wants three retail investors to bear the costs of a proposed investigation into the affairs of a company in the Solar 21 renewable energy group

A young woman has claimed before the High Court she was repeatedly raped in the car of a school principal who gave her lifts to her own school each morning

Sinn Féin has been vocal in calls for Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to resign

Carlson and Bannon referenced the racist great replacement conspiracy theory as they blamed the Irish Government and the EU for the Dublin riots

Drew Harris said that while the riot was ‘uncontrollable’, he denied that the city was ‘out of control’.

A Dublin youth, who carried out a "rage-filled" and suspected hate attack on a lesbian couple, has been spared a custodial sentence and ordered to carry out community service

The High Court has dismissed a Sinn Féin constituency organiser’s defamation claim against a Belfast newspaper and one of its journalists

A teacher and a school principal have appeared before a fitness-to-teach inquiry over the alleged inappropriate removal of headphones from the boy

Patrick McNamee (42) admitted stealing €200 in what the judge said was a 'particularly callous, targeted and deliberate' offence

The jury heard that the couple and their two children were due to move to Kerry the day after the fire, for Eugene to start work with Ms Hogan’s father as a cabinet maker.