A major extension of facilities at a pharmaceutical plant near Cork harbour is the subject of a recent planning application.

A second Labour Councillor in Co Kildare said he will be resigning from the party because it made promises that it knew it could not keep.

The Labour party is set to lose another Councillor.

PLANNERS have cleared the way for further housing on an estate where residents have lived for three years with unfinished roads, incomplete public lighting and inadequately secured construction sites.