Sixteen years later and €12m poorer, Indaver is no less committed to building an incinerator in Ringaskiddy. On the eve of yet another oral hearing and with a third planning application under scrutiny, Indaver Ireland chief John Ahern tells Catherine Shanahan that he’s upbeat about their chances of success.

Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for a 5,400 sq m solar farm near Macroom, Co Cork.

Despite guidelines in the Cork County Development Plan, council planners say around 50% of the county is still "open to consideration" as regards the erection of wind farms.

AN TAISCE has objected to plans by Coillte to build a 90-bed nursing home in a forestry in east Cork.

A MOTORWAY connection to Buttevant could cost as little as €1 million and would lead to fewer accidents on a series of lethal bends which have claimed 40% of all fatalities on the main road between Cork and Limerick.

MUNSTER is facing a waste crisis because its local authorities won’t be capable of disposing of all non-recyclables in the next few years, it was claimed yesterday.

IT’S unusual to have open viewings for serviced sites, but that’s just what auctioneer Noreen O’Sullivan did last week.

WE’RE not corrupt — that was the strong message Cork politicians sent to the Flood Tribunal yesterday.

PROPOSALS to build a €14 million super dump which would have taken 1.5 million tonnes of waste have been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.