A modern, well-designed, and well-run 240,000-tonne incinerator is compatible with and will “integrate successfully” with the range of existing uses in Cork Harbour, the State’s planning appeals board believes.

The company planning to build a 240,000-tonne capacity incinerator in Cork Harbour has grossly underestimated the risk zone around its chimney stack, local campaigners have claimed.

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.

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.

Residents in a Cork City suburb have said they may ultimately seek a judicial review over plans to develop a motorway from the outskirts of the city to Ringaskiddy amid claims they were not properly consulted.

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.

An expert report on Cork harbour has contradicted claims made by Dairygold that waste from a planned cheese plant will be “safely carried out to sea on outgoing tides”.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial €10m rock barrier plan for his Doonbeg golf links resort has been abandoned.

Why some of the data included as part of Indaver Ireland’s application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy appears identical to a 2008 application by another company for an entirely different facility in Co Meath remained a mystery yesterday on the final day of an oral hearing into the proposed project.

Nothing in the environmental impact statement (EIS) accompanying Indaver Ireland’s planning application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy adequately explains the health impact it could have, according to a specialist in public health.

Residents opposed to a contested windfarm development in West Waterford are to hold a public information evening this week.

The Office of Public Works is being urged to give precise timelines for the start of delayed flood prevention schemes in three towns, amid fears funding is not available to carry out works.

The Port of Cork’s plans for a €100m redevelopment of its cargo-handling facilities at Ringaskiddy have been hit with a further delay.

A village in East Cork is calling for rigorous noise and environmental studies to be carried out if the ESB is to extend its local substation — a project reportedly vital to the modernisation of the electricity grid.

Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney is on another collision course with residents of Bantry after he approved a fish farming licence for a company seeking to cultivate native seaweed in the West Cork bay.

The noise and disruption from building work on the new €35m Cork Prison forced a woman recovering from cancer to leave her home.

Plans for a €50m, nine-storey office block in Cork City have been dealt a further blow with news of two further objections to its planning permission — including one from the owners of Ireland’s tallest building.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a €200m wind farm on Clare’s Atlantic coast that divided families in the village of Doonbeg.

Celebrity chef Darina Allen and the international Slow Food organisation have clashed with Bord Iascaigh Mhara over its proposed 500-hectare organic salmon farm off the Aran Islands.

The body representing the views of a number of islanders living closest to a planned €50m organic salmon farm said it strongly objects to the plan.

Government agencies have clashed over plans for a massive deep-sea salmon farm off the west coast, which backers say will create 500 jobs.

Two Government agencies have clashed over plans for a massive deep sea salmon farm off the west coast which backers say will create 500 jobs.

A local authority has spent more than €250,000 to date on a controversial pier project.

The impact of a contentious pier on Ireland’s answer to Hawaii’s legendary ‘Pipeline wave’ will not be significant, a new report claims.

A group opposed to the controversial extraction of 350m litres of water a day from the Shannon for use as drinking water in Dublin has accused Dublin City Council of “putting the cart before the horse”.

Clare County Council has come under fire after opting to spend up to €100,000 on an Environmental Impact Study to assess whether or not to demolish two 19th century protected homes.

Contentious plans for a new €6 million pier in Doolin will not now be complete until 2014, at least — three years behind schedule.

DEPARTMENT of Agriculture permission may be needed to continue land reclamation projects which commenced since September 8 — the cutoff point after which farmers must ask officials to screen their plans for land restructuring, conversion of uncultivated or semi-natural areas, or land drainage, if above certain size thresholds.

SURFERS have thrown into doubt Clare County Council’s plans for a €6 million pier at Doolin for summer 2012.

FOUR years after getting the green light, work is finally expected to commence on a €80 million retirement village at Carnelly near Ennis this June.

A BARRIER to the future expansion of Ennis is to be lifted with Clare County Council lodging plans for a sewerage scheme.

OBJECTORS have until close of business on Monday to lodge submissions with An Bord Pleanála in relation to the construction of a €600 million motorway linking Cork and Limerick.

ANGRY Cork Harbour residents have accused An Bord Pleanála of being “pro-developer rather than independent” after it gave Indaver’s hazardous waste incinerator a provisional green light, despite the application lacked detail on flooding and coastal erosion prevention.

CONOR O’SHEA has seen off a star-studded field to become the new director of rugby at Harlequins.

Conor O’Shea has seen off a star-studded field to become the new director of rugby at Harlequins.

Harlequins have confirmed today that former Ireland full-back Conor O’Shea will succeed the controversial Dean Richards as their Director of Rugby.

CONOR O’SHEA is expected to be named as Harlequins’ new director of rugby.

TRAFFIC engineers representing Cork harbour residents said there will be more traffic jams from Indaver’s proposed incinerator than the company’s environmental impact analysis has predicted.

GOVERNMENT, Exchequer and IDA commitment will be needed to secure Cork docklands redevelopment and to provide a counter-balance to the burgeoning Dublin region, according to the developers behind an estimated €2 billion masterplan for a 32-acre site on Cork’s south docks.

The first day of the oral hearing into the Port of Cork's proposed development for a new container facility in Ringaskiddy began today.

Members of Passage West Town Council are opposing the planned relocation of the Port of Cork from Tivoli to Ringaskiddy.

THE building of a €400 million gas terminal near Ballylongford on the Shannon Estuary has moved a step closer following the agreement of a comprehensive package of measures between farmers and the terminal construction company Shannon LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas).