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Living in digs, where students pay to rent a bedroom in a family home, help the homeowner earn tax-free income while easing the housing crisis

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Colin Murphy Opinion Old-fashioned digs are the way out of this student accommodation crisis

Recent days have produced headlines about the student accommodation crisis in the Connaught Telegraph, Donegal Live, the Mayo News, Tipperary Live, the Limerick Leader, the Westmeath Examiner, the Kerryman and the Connaught Tribune. A Waterford students’ union president warns it will be “worse than ever”. A Tipperary TD warns about it “spiralling out of control”. A Limerick businessman predicts “Armageddon”.

Opinion

Colin Murphy Opinion Old-fashioned digs are the way out of this student accommodation crisis

Eoin O’Malley Opinion Self-imposed hurdles hinder our efforts to house refugees

Declan Lynch Opinion Trump’s dark army of enablers are still taking the Mick

Sarah Caden Opinion Being hopelessly devoted to TikTok far worse than ‘Grease’

Chris Donnelly Opinion Female loyalists emerge from the shadows to tell their side of the story

End discrimination against small landlords

Shane Ross Opinion Shane Ross: A giveaway budget has many fathers — but one big daddy hogged all the limelight

Julia Molony Opinion Someone finally has the courage to say the show can’t and mustn’t go on

Conor Skehan Opinion We’ll have to switch way we think if we want to save our electricity supply and stop the lights going out

Shane Coleman Opinion Balance of power: Energy security and the unforgiving voter

Fiona O’Connell Opinion Lay of the Land: It's time we got behind all our essential evergreen grafters

Frank Coughlan Opinion Even Oliver Cromwell – a figure we love to hate – deserves a fair hearing

Stella O'Malley Opinion Log off, sit out the back and feel your mood lift as you bask in the warm rays of the sun

Letters to the Editor Opinion When it comes Vladimir Putin, Ian O’Doherty tells it like it is

When buying school uniforms, the mantra should be recycle, reuse, save money and the planet

Sabina Higgins is simply a proxy for an ambush of the President

Less war, more Tom Cruise I say

Comment

Shane Ross Opinion ‘Behold Leo, the landlords’ hero, the tenants’ hero, the hero of the squeezed middle, the dispenser of increased welfare payments’

Rosita Sweetman Opinion History is collapsing – give us back our Iveagh Markets

Sandra Kavanagh Opinion Why the summers of our yesteryear will always outshine these sultry, scorching days

Gene Kerrigan Opinion A Bertie Ahern comfort blanket cannot cover sins of the past

Fiona O’Connell Opinion Lay of the Land: It's time we got behind all our essential evergreen grafters

Conor Skehan Opinion We’ll have to switch way we think if we want to save our electricity supply and stop the lights going out

Julia Molony Opinion Someone finally has the courage to say the show can’t and mustn’t go on

Chris Donnelly Opinion Female loyalists emerge from the shadows to tell their side of the story

Analysis

Philip Ryan Opinion Government reshuffle: Leo Varadkar will become Taoiseach but which ministers could lose their top table role?

Ciaran Moran Opinion Setting emissions target is done, now comes the hard bit – getting there

Steven L Isenberg Opinion Joe Biden could save the Democrats with a pledge to serve just one term

Sean O'Grady Opinion Trussonomics is an extension of Boris Johnson’s cakeism and will end in tears

Roland Oliphant Opinion Ukraine’s security problems run far deeper than Volodymyr Zelensky’s friend

Shane Ross Opinion Old boys’ summer dip reveals political life is grown stagnant

John Downing Opinion Decreasing euro values against the dollar have big implications for all of us

John Downing Opinion The cost-of-living crisis could cast a cloud over TDs as they head off on holidays

Letters

Letters to the Editor Opinion From the mouths of wild goats

Letters to the Editor Opinion Why the closure of pubs sounds the death knell for a vital part of life in rural Ireland

Letters to the Editor Opinion Only by ending Gaza siege can Israel protect all citizens

Letters to the Editor Opinion Disconnect with body politic laid bare on your pages

Letters to the Editor Opinion When it comes Vladimir Putin, Ian O’Doherty tells it like it is

Letters to the Editor Opinion While we still have a voice we should call out debt and war

Letters to the Editor Opinion To limit food production now would be an act of sheer insanity

Letters to the Editor Opinion In calling for negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, Sabina Higgins only spoke the truth

Editorial

End discrimination against small landlords

Putin cannot be allowed to profit from this carnage

Editorial Opinion Griffith deserves greater credit for his crucial role

Editorial Opinion Tax reforms are welcome as cost-of-living crisis bites

Editorial Opinion A bold move against Donald Trump – but it could backfire

Editorial Opinion Capuchin Centre founder who put our poorest first will be sorely missed

Planning to cool off at the beach? Then beware of the dangers of the water

Editorial Opinion Budget 2023: Don’t make families choose between heating and eating