Full coverage: Infrastructure

Even by Ireland’s record-breaking tax revenue standards, this year’s record is staggering. The Government has one year left to turn this gold mine into housing and infrastructure.

The Government's acceleration plan includes radical reforms in the legal area. While it shows ambition, some law experts have raised concerns about its impact on access to justice and the new proposals may face their own legal challenges.

Frustration about housing and infrastructure has led to confusion between private interests, environmental obligations, and the processes at play to balance them against the public good.

“I think an awful lot of the criticism is based upon knowledge of our organisation three years ago,” says An Coimisiún Pleanála’s new CEO. In his first major interview, Peter Mullan explains how he is turning the ship around.

France is broke but can double the size of the Paris metro, while cash-rich Ireland faces another judicial review in Dublin. Are there any lessons to be learned?

The capital allocations in Budget 2026 simply confirm those in the National Development Plan. The Government’s challenge is “barriers to delivery,” Jack Chambers said.

He’s sold cars, run restaurants, built fibre networks in the Caribbean — and lost almost everything in the crash. Today, Peter McCarthy leads the Speed Fibre Group. His mission: to challenge Eir, reshape the market, and future-proof Ireland’s digital backbone.

Political commitments have come and gone. Hundreds of industry visitors and four bidders known so far make the Dublin metro a more tangible prospect.

The State’s commitment to fund Metrolink before its cost is known illustrates the abandonment of project selection on the basis of their business case.

The latest iteration of the National Development Plan sets funding allocations first, leaving project prioritisation for later – except for three Dublin infrastructure mammoths.