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Legal challenges to housing projects in Dublin have declined significantly in recent years, data from a state-established taskforce has shown.

Research produced by the 4Dublin Housing Supply Pipeline Task Force, a state group established to track residential building, said the number of homes in Dublin’s planning system faced with a legal challenge fell 15 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2026.

It said there were 2,876 homes facing judicial reviews at the beginning of this year in Dublin, which represented 6.2 per cent of unactivated planning permissions for new houses and apartments. Killian Woods has the details.

Directors of An Post are said to have questioned the purpose of and value of their roles at an extraordinary meeting of the board on Friday.