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Wednesday, 31 December, 2025

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Housing & Planning

Simon Harris claims ‘significant number’ in emergency accommodation ‘don’t have housing right’

Homeless executive chief rejects Tánaiste’s view, saying people who ‘can’t establish a right to housing ... are sent on their way’

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Education

Students suspected of AI misuse to face in-person interviews under new recommendations

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Housing & Planning

DCU rents comply with RPZ rules ‘to the letter’, university’s president tells Government

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Abroad

‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban

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Politics

‘I was shook’: Simon Harris says he nearly quit politics after threats to his wife and children

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Ireland

Fewer Irish people using ChatGPT than in other countries, OpenAI told Taoiseach

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Abroad

Laura Kennedy: Time is a border: I wake up to family and friends’ yesterdays, untouchable to me

Midnight comes twice for me with a mind in Ireland and a body in Australia

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Europe

‘A taboo has broken’: How Western powers are pushing to re-write refugee law

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Business

Average value of second-hand homes rises by almost 7%

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Politics

Steve Bannon promises ‘Irish Trump’ and says he is working to form ‘national party’ in Ireland

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Crime & Law

Gardaí release images of car believed to have been used in fatal Co Offaly firebombing

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Social Affairs

Stream of rejection letters from special schools is ‘soul destroying’, says father

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