The Land Development Agency (LDA) has begun the second phase of Limerick city’s proposed Colbert Station Quarter.

Plans for a new €320m urban quarter in Galway City centre have been revealed .

Plans for a new urban redevelopment quarter with the potential to host thousands of apartments close to Limerick City’s rail and bus transport hub take a significant step forward today, gearing the city towards Framework 2040 planned regional growth.

An umpire at the heart of the call not to award Limerick a last-gasp 65 in this year’s All-Ireland semi-final has been given a pair of glasses as a Christmas gift by a Limerick fan.

The Governance structure at the HSE has been overhauled in a bid to rebuild public trust in the service.

Construction work is due to start on site by year’s end for a 165-bed Cork city centre hotel, adjacent to the bus station and alongside the Prism office tower site: both key sites cleared planning in recent weeks.

The tallest office building so far developed in Cork City, Penrose Dock next to Kent Rail Station at up to nine storeys, is setting an even more impressive record: its first core and lift shaft is up to full height, less than a year after the €125m project on the city’s north quays first applied for planning permission.

We are great at carrying out clean ups in this country – cleans ups that occur after lengthy periods during which the area affected has been allowed to go to rack and ruin.

Developers with 'tunnel vision' are being canvassed for a Cork city centre plot, which directly overlook overlooks two sites where work is now underway on €300 million worth of projects.

A privately-funded rapid transport network is being proposed for Dublin. Jed van de Poll, Dublin Metro CEO, explains an alternative to the Government-supported project Metrolink Metro Dublin has a grand vision for the capital city’s public transport.

Irish Rail is launching its first ever external recruitment drive for train drivers.

Developing a 23km greenway along a disused East Cork railway line will boost the local economy and is better than letting it lie idle, Cork County Council insists.

A major planning approval this week brings to €300m the value of development set to flow onto Cork City’s north quays, by CIÉ’s Kent railway station.

“It was out of left field, even his officials were looking panicked when he said it.”

Transport Minister Shane Ross is proposing a radical scheme to offer share options to 11,000 CIE employees, in order to “give them a few bob” and make them feel better.

Walling the River Lee will not contain flooding and will destroy Cork’s unique offering as a place to live, writes Victoria White.

The number of people availing of free travel has dramatically risen along with the ageing population over the past decade.

When I first moved to Dublin in the late 1980s there was no cooler part of the city than Temple Bar.

A €160m development is set to create the first urban residential quarter in Cork city’s sprawling docklands.

Bertie Ahern sought to reverse a decision of the previous government to sell the former CIE group of hotels. This was within months of his taking office in his first ministerial appointment.

A Limerick family is to go to High Court to seek answers as to why their very depressed loved one was not admitted to University Hospital Limerick after being sent there by his GP with a letter recommending treatment.

A new €10m revamp to Cork city’s railway station is to open to tomorrow providing passenger access to the quays for the first time.

Transport Minister Shane Ross is being urged to “get on with” resolving the Iarnród Éireann pay dispute after being accused of being more interested in sending tweets about Manchester United and “fantasy” North Korean trips than his own job.

The chairman of the Port of Cork says it is vital for the country’s economic future that An Bord Pleanála give the green light to the proposed €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway.

Seamus O’Brien was barely a teenager when his brother Pascal arrived back home from seminary one time to usher him and another brother Brendan out the door and on to a train bound for Kingsbridge Station in Dublin.

Young girls in Ireland have always been and still are the object of male desire. They must be empowered to deal with unwanted attention, writes Victoria White

Unions have accused both the board of CIE and management at Iarnrod Éireann of “aping Oliver Twist” in their “embarrassing” approach to seeking funding from government for Ireland’s rail network.

Back in 1967, on April 11 to be precise, the then minister for finance delivered a very long and very remarkable budget speech. 

A digital technology firm with branches in Galway and Dublin is expanding.

DEVELOPMENT worth €160 million, spanning eight buildings and to include 237 apartments, a 136-bed hotel, 400,000 sq ft of offices and an acre of open plaza is coming on track on Cork city’s Horgan’s Quay.

A decent fountain throws water up into the air to refract sunlight and cool the surroundings, writes Terry Prone

THERE has been considerable focus recently on the volume of new office stock coming on stream in Dublin, both in terms of the number of schemes under construction and the volume of stock that could potentially be delivered if all schemes in the planning process materialise.

The National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) has accused government and management in Iarnród Éireann of “playing Russian roulette” with transport policy.

Colette Sheridan speaks to the two men who built the Popemobile for his visit to Ireland, which can now be rented for stag or hen parties.

It was a big deal, we were told in advance, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

State-owned land is being opened up for development in a bid to ease the housing crisis, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner

Given I live where there is no regular bus service and my only option is driving or Shanks’ Mare, it’s easy for me to be philosophical about the current bus strike whether it is official, unofficial or wildcat. So, not having a service means I am not directly affected. However others are, with some being badly and even unfairly affected.

Our team of reporters talk to people from Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Limerick on how the Bus Éireann strike is having an effect across their cities.

Bus Éireann workers have vowed to hit train, Dublin Bus and Dart services with further unannounced wildcat strikes again next week disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of commuters each day.

There were no trains or Bus Éireann buses operating out of Limerick, causing chaos for commuters.

Tens of thousands of commuters have been left stranded today as Bus Éireann workers stage an all-out indefinite strike.

Once again, the public play a waiting game to find out when our travel plans are to be thrown into chaos by a full-blown and probably indefinite Bus Éireann stoppage.

Sport played a big role in the social activities of workers and an edition of the plant’s newsletter, Ford News, in December, 1968, highlighted this.