A couple has launched a High Court challenge over a decision to grant planning permission for a windfarm development close to their Cork home.

A renewable energy firm refused planning for a solar farm close to Waterford Airport has appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála.

A local group has lost its challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s permission for a €46m wind farm close to the village of Lixnaw in Co Kerry.

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Some homeowners on the country’s most exclusive road are trying to block plans by one of their neighbours to carry out a house makeover that includes an underground cinema.

An Bord Pleanála has given the go-ahead for contentious plans for a whiskey distillery in the Burren.

A Co Meath mother has expressed health fears for her asthmatic daughter arising from her own brother’s plans to build a pet incinerator close to their family home.

Heritage body An Taisce is to appeal plans for a public car park on a Killarney town section of the Ring of Kerry.

A midwife who engaged in lengthy court proceedings more than a decade ago to prevent An Bord Altranais stopping her assisting at home births has been struck off the nursing board’s register.

Two landowners have brought a High Court challenge against the planning authorities decision to grant planning permission for a wind farm near their home.

A group of Cobh residents have brought a High Court challenge against An Bord Pleanála's decision to grant permission for the construction of a scrap-metal processing facility.

Caution is being advised over a large scale development where Chinese firms could showcase their goods and services to European buyers.

PLANS to reduce the number of Vocational Education Committees (VECs) by about a third and make them more efficient will be brought to Government within three weeks by Tánaiste Mary Coughlan.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has insisted he is complying with the “letter of the law” in the way he is handling an incinerator project which he and his constituents oppose.

SOME of the country’s top food industry analysts will gather in Cork later this month to discuss the future of the multi-billion euro industry.

Chambers Ireland has said An Bord Snip Nua's recommended cuts "are not enough" for the Govt to balance the books.

GIVEN that An Bord Snip Nua’s brief was to cut public expenditure and that, if the rumours are to be believed, it felt it could go so far as to recommend the dropping of government ministers, I can’t understand why it did not recommend the abolition of the Seanad.

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste are due to lead the state’s biggest-ever trade mission to Japan in the New Year.

A SECTION of new dual carriageway linking Waterford and Dublin has been given the green light, despite a report which clearly says permission for the route should be refused.

An Bord Pleanala has paved the way for the final phase of redevelopment at Croke Park, the GAA's flagship stadium in Dublin.

CLARE gardaí are investigating allegations that official planning documents for a hotel and holiday homes at a controversial €25 million golf course were altered.

An Bórd Pleanála has rejected an appeal from environmentalists against the construction of a peat-fired ESB power station in Shannonbridge, Co Offaly.