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Insurance companies have warned of their concerns about householders using demountable flood defences to protect their homes in the wake of storms last year, according to documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI).

University of Limerick is facing strong criticism after spending over €12.5 million for 20 student houses.

While RTÉ executives worked through a financial scandal last year, staff in Montrose struggled with another crisis — as rodents and pests descended on the broadcaster’s campus.

Another violent incident on O’Connell Street, just days after a €10m plan to beef up policing in Dublin city centre ended, saw one woman knocked out after she and a man set upon two others.

An Taisce, the national environmental trust, has complained that RTÉ’s role as a public service broadcaster and its climate-action coverage is undermined by its presenters receiving cars or acting as brand ambassadors.

Debbie Lawrence has been at her wits’ end with O’Connell Street for some time — long before last November’s riots and even before a man was chased into her casino by two others wielding a machete.

A developer whose plans for new student housing were quashed twice, after more than five years of bureaucracy and judicial reviews, says he has no confidence in the planning system.

A solitary black ribbon was pinned to a bright pink door outside the tourist centre in Kilfenora, Co Clare, yesterday morning.

A solitary black ribbon was pinned to a bright pink door outside the tourist centre in Kilfenora, Co Clare, yesterday morning.

If the worst fears are realised, this winter will be tougher than the last.