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The revival of Ireland’s towns and village centres has become one of the defining challenges of modern planning, as communities grapple with vacancy, dereliction, and a shortage of accessible housing. The enhanced “Living Over the Shop” initiative—delivered through the expanded Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant—offers a practical and imaginative response to these intertwined issues. Welcomed by Séamus McGrath, housing spokesperson for Fianna Fáil, the scheme reflects a growing recognition that the answers to Ireland’s housing crisis and town centre decline may lie, quite literally, above our heads.

Galway City Council has land for housing, demand for housing, but there is no Government plan to build on scale, a former Mayor of Galway City has claimed.

Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin TD, will visit Galway on Monday, February 7, for a series of engagements.

Students who have paid up front for accommodation they cannot now access because of COVID-19 need to be refunded - according to Mayo Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh.

By now, the supposed paradox has become a truism: how is it that a State, which a decade ago had a housing bubble, now has a shortage? Why, when various surveys show thousands of vacant housing units, are so many unable to secure a home? Why has housing turned from an 'issue' to a 'crisis'?

Housing Minister Simon Coveney is being asked to investigate allegations of abuses of the Affordable Social Housing scheme.