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One reader writes: 'I work in the Civil Service, and we have two anchor days in the office every month. It is very isolating, working from home 90 per cent of the time. We don’t get to know new work colleagues, therefore no new relationships are being formed and old relationships are also suffering. The divide between work and home life has been eroded and there is no off switch any more. Is there anything I can I do to improve my circumstances?' Read more: https://lnkd.in/eqgDtSEE

Couple ‘couldn’t be happier’ after ditching Dublin for Berlin to buy a home “We put a bid on a place in Sandyford, in a digital auction during Covid, but every time we refreshed the thing, it just kept jumping. We ended up just having a bottle of wine and watching it, thinking ‘this is nuts’,” Mr O’Leary said. “People were throwing €5,000, €10,000 at it like it was just 10 quid – it was crazy,” Ms dos Santos Carvalho added. The property ended up selling for €100,000 more than the asking price, at which point the pair began to weigh up whether it was worth continuing their search.

After a decade of tinkering around the edges, it must surely be time for more drastic measures to address the housing crisis

One reader writes to Trish Murphy saying: ‘Our daughter is almost 40 and moving out soon, but she has told her son that he can stay with us’ Tell Me About It: 'We are both retired a few years now and really want to do the things we saved for – travel a bit, do up the house and put an end to the 40 years of parenting we have put in'

‘We don’t get to know new work colleagues, therefore no new relationships are being formed and old relationships are also suffering. ‘When you are working from home there can be less incentive to exercise and you can be constantly nibbling on not-so-healthy foods. ‘I think our current work situation is very bad for our mental health and wellbeing.’

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Mediahuis Ireland group head of features Liz Kearney has been appointed editor of the Sunday Independent.

The Revenue Commissioners had to spend more than €50,000 replacing computer equipment after a monitor in their investigations and prosecutions office started to billow smoke.

The decision by Dublin City Council to refuse planning permission for 284 residential units on lands at Terenure College runs contrary to critical and unambiguous local and national planning policies, according to an appeal lodged with An Bord Pleanála on behalf of developer Lioncor.

US investment giant Realty Income Reit has snapped up a portfolio of eight of Ireland’s best-known retail parks.