Rent Pressure Zones are to be extended to cover the entire country.
Sweeping new changes will be brought to cabinet for approval today following a meeting of government leaders last night.
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The number of children in consistent poverty in Ireland has risen above 100,000.
The Children’s Rights Alliance latest edition of its annual Child Poverty Monitor showed the figure rose by just over 45,000 last year.
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President Trump has deployed a further 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, as protests against immigration raids continue.
That's on top of the 2,000 troops who were sent over the weekend, along with 700 marines.
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Eurostar is planning to launch direct trains from the UK to Germany and Switzerland.
Its aim is to have trains going between St Pancras, Frankfurt and Geneva from the "early 2030s".
