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Two teaching unions vote overwhelmingly in favour of revised pay deal

Two teaching unions have voted to back the revised public sector pay deal. Primary-level union the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) – Ireland’s largest teachers’ union – said 80% of its members voted to accept it, while 85% of the ...

30 Sept 2022 at 17:32

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Primark to reopen landmark Northern Irish store four years after 'devastating' fire

Primark has confirmed that its landmark Belfast store will reopen before Christmas. It follows an extensive four-year restoration project after the Bank Buildings branch was destroyed by an accidental fire in August 2018. The retail giant ...

10 Aug 2022 at 15:24

Longfordleader

Longford construction firms reflect on difficult market

Importation costs of over 500 per cent as well as the doubling of insulation and timber prices are draining Longford’s building sector in a trend that is delaying or even scuppering the hopes of an increasing number of young people from ...

06 Aug 2022 at 08:00

Longfordleader

Local building sector in crisis

Longford’s construction sector is facing arguably its biggest challenge since 2008 as spiralling inflationary costs hit home and threaten to undo the region’s post Covid boom. Spiralling material hikes allied to a continued fall off in ...

03 Aug 2022 at 08:00

National News

Interim work ‘the priority’ as building defect repairs estimated at 2.5bn euros

An independent report into apartments with defects built during the Celtic Tiger-era has found that interim measures to address potential safety issues “need to be identified as a priority” pending the completion of full remediation ...

28 Jul 2022 at 17:01

National News

Rising building costs to keep house prices at boom levels

Rising costs for building materials will keep house prices at record highs, a report from the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) finds. “Leading indicators show pressures building up in relation to input prices, which ...

07 Jun 2022 at 11:28

National News

House building steps up post pandemic across the country

Construction of over 2,000 new residential homes is expected to begin in the coming weeks, latest figures show. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has published commencement notices data for February 2022....

22 Mar 2022 at 13:16

National News

Govt recruits construction workers to 'match demand' when housing supply increases

A Housing for All initiative dedicated to recruiting construction workers has been launched by the government. The Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys, and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, ...

05 May 2022 at 18:22

Longfordleader

Reduction in Longford's commercial property vacancy

Longford remains mid-table in an assessment of commercial vacancy rates in the country with 14.4% of the commercial property stock in the county unoccupied. Edgeworthstown has the second highest vacancy rate of any ...

03 Sept 2022 at 10:00

National News

Number of workers enrolled for retrofitting programmes grows to record figures

The number of workers enrolled in the Near Zero Energy Building and Retrofit upskilling programmes has jumped from 363 in 2020 to a record 2,034 in 2022. This has been described as a major advance in creating new ...

17 Jan 2023 at 17:22

National News

Latest data shows almost 10% drop in completion of Ireland's new builds year-on-year

The amount of new builds completed in Ireland this quarter has fallen by almost 10% year-on-year. That's according to the latest data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which recorded 4,656 new dwelling ...

02 Nov 2021 at 13:52

National News

‘More than a third of homes built in first three months of 2023 were apartments’

More than a third of homes built in the first three months of 2023 were apartments, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The CSO examined “new dwelling completions”, which are ...

26 Apr 2023 at 12:58

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