A number of local residents have won a High Court order quashing Offaly County Council's decision to grant a permit for a waste facility near Daingean following a review.

Work on a vital flood-prevention scheme has been delayed again and construction on it may not start for another year.

Work on a vital flood prevention scheme has been delayed again and construction on it may not start for another year.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by local residents over An Bord Pleanála’s approval for the first phase of tech giant Apple’s planned €850m data centre in Athenry.

The site of one of Europe’s once-great Roman/Turkish baths and hydrotherapy complexes, the Hydro in Tower, Blarney — near the world-renowned Blarney Castle which attracts nearly 500,000 visitors a year — has been earmarked for a €35m nursing home and associated house development.

A High Court challenge has been mounted against a decision to allow a company owned by independent TD Danny Healy-Rae to raise the level of a Co Kerry field with construction and demolition waste.

Environmental campaigners opposed to plans for a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour have been given leave to mount a legal challenge to the proposed plant.

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help campaigners continue their near-20-year fight against controversial plans for an incinerator in Cork Harbour.

The board that rules on appeals regarding aquaculture licences has requested a string of new reviews before making any final decision on a proposed new salmon farm off Shot Head in West Cork.

A judge will rule next week whether to allow two local residents appeal his decision clearing the way for tech giant Apple to develop the first phase of a planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.

Two local residents have asked a High Court judge to allow them appeal his decision clearing the way for tech giant Apple to develop the first phase of a planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a local group over its failed challenge to An Bord Pleanala's permission for a €46m wind farm close to the village of Lixnaw in Co Kerry.

The pound was heading towards 15-month highs against the US dollar following stronger than expected UK retail sales data.

Irish Water will have to wait on a judge's decision over whether it can proceed with plans to lay a sewage pipe through lands owned by the Duke of Devonshire and which would discharge treated waste water into Youghal Bay.

A farmer has got orders halting works to connect a windfarm in Co Sligo to an electricity substation in Co Leitrim after a High Court judge ruled it was incorrectly decided the works do not require planning permission.

A High Court judge has refused to allow a number of local residents appeal his decision rejecting their challenge to permission for a windfarm development in Co Cork.

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.

Administrators for Circle Oil have reached agreement to sell the bulk of the company’s remaining assets for $30m (€28m).

A number of local residents have lost their legal challenge over the approval of permission for a windfarm development in Co Cork.

Crude oil prices advanced, extending the longest winning streak in more than a year, as US crude and petrol inventories declined.

Although no solar farms have yet been built in the Republic, a handful of projects have been granted planning permission.

Oil prices extended their losses yesterday, falling nearly 3%, after a smaller-than-expected US inventory drawdown and jitters ahead of the vote on whether Britain should stay in the EU.

Oil rose to a four-month high in London ahead of a meeting in Doha this month where producers will discuss freezing output.

Oil was poised for the first weekly decline since mid-February as US crude stockpiles expanded again, keeping supplies at the highest level in more than eight decades.

Oil declined after an official report showed US crude inventories advanced to an 86-year high.

An Taisce says its latest legal challenge to a €69m upgrade of the N86 main road to Dingle is “to ensure things are done properly”.

Oil prices steadied yesterday after US crude oil stocks rose, balancing bullish data showing the market was beginning to tighten, with falling supply and higher demand.

Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a 100-unit caravan park at a beach near Dungarvan, Co Waterford.

An environmental group has secured leave to appeal against the rejection of its challenge to a grant of permission for a wind farm in Co Laois.

Oil fell in 2014 by the most since the 2008 global financial crisis as US producers and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries ceded no ground in their battle for market share amid a supply glut.

A development company in Nama has objected to a massive office block project in Cork City which has the potential to deliver 2,000 jobs.

Ten-year-old Connor O’Neill is utterly terrified of loud noise.

A decision to give permission for a new nuclear power station on the coast facing Ireland should be quashed, the High Court in London has heard.

The Shell Corrib gas pipeline project has suffered a major setback after the Commercial Court granted an order quashing the revised licence issued for the Shell gas terminal at Ballinaboy.

A conservation group claims that Google has something in common with illicit ivory traders in China and Thailand – it says the internet search giant is helping fuel a dramatic surge in ivory demand in Asia which is killing African elephants at record levels.

An energy company planning to test drill for oil about six miles from some of Ireland’s most sought after real estate has been forced to postpone explorations.