In other news, some staff at Meta Ireland have sought legal advice over the tech giant’s decision to cut some jobs in the Republic as part of a wider cull of what chief executive Mark Zuckerberg described as “low-performers.”
Polling at the weekend revealed that Fianna Fáil voters would not have backed the party had the true housebuilding figures been known ahead of the November election. Meanwhile, a new report by Daft has shown that rents in the cities of Cork and Galway rose by an average of 10% last year – and rent in Limerick city has risen by as much as 19%.