Institutional investors and State-backed entities such as Approved Housing Bodies bought over a fifth of the homes that came up for sale on the Irish property market last year, according to the CSO. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports.

Eoin also reports that Ireland’s water infrastructure is now one of the main constraints on the economy, limiting the supply of housing and other infrastructure, Ifac head Seamus Coffey told the Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight on Tuesday.

Shannon Airport saw its passenger traffic increase by 7 per cent in the first half of the year, rising to more than one million over the six months. Ciara O’Brien has the story.