Alan Healy: Ireland's rapid development is hitting critical energy and infrastructure gaps

Ireland's rapid development exposes critical infrastructure gaps, with massive energy demands from data centres, EVs, and heat pumps driving future challenges.

Debates over housing delivery inevitably return to shortages in water and electricity. Picture: Larry Cummins

It’s clear from the scale of construction, expansion and technological change currently taking place in Ireland that we are a country in flux.

The Irish Examiner's Future Cork series this week aims to capture the level of transformation that is taking place across the city and county, and that is being repeated nationwide.