Homeowners have been urged to check that they are adequately insured after new industry figures which show that rebuilding costs have risen by 54 per cent over the past five years. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports on the new Society Of Chartered Surveyors House Rebuild Guide which says that labour costs and skills shortage helped push the average price of rebuilding a home up by 6 per cent over the past year.

Pilots docked pay during an acrimonious work to rule during the summer are to be reimbursed and their records scrubbed of a damaging “failure to join” sanction as both sides work to improve relations in the wake of the dispute that saw more than 90,000 passengers left with no flights after a two-year dispute escalated. Barry O’Halloran reports.

Israel’s leased embassy building in Dublin and a nearby property that served as the base for Germany’s mission during the second World War are among dozens of properties that could be sold after receivers were appointed last week to some assets in an Irish real-estate fund managed by property investor Mel Sutcliffe’s Quanta Capital. Joe Brennan has the details.