An Bord Pleanála has a duty to the Irish people that it is not living up to with regards to Indaver’s plans for Cork Harbour, writes Linda Fitzpatrick

Twenty-five staff at the National Maritime College (NMCI) in Cork are to be told their jobs are still on the line, though progress has been made in a course accreditation row with the Department of Transport.

Staff at the National Maritime College have implored Transport Minister Shane Ross to intervene in a row which could threaten jobs at the Cork-based facility.

A large majority of county councillors in Cork are seeking to formally register their opposition to an incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

The minister for the defence and marine, Simon Coveney, will oppose controversial new plans for a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour.

The minister driving the €1bn re-invention of Cork Harbour as a tourism, research, and innovation hub says waste firm Indaver faces a “real challenge” to convince him and the public of the merits of an incinerator in the area.

The Naval Service is preparing to use drones as part of a plan to improve its surveillance operations while policing the county’s 1 million square kilometres of territorial waters.

It was great to read a good-news story about the development of the Lower Cork Harbour in your article (Irish Examiner, March 12).

€200m in investments and up to 4,000 marine-centred jobs and new tourism attractions are in Cork Harbour’s pipeline, reports Tommy Barker.

IN one of the larger industrial deals in several years in Cork, a harbour site with 233,000 sq ft of buildings has been bought for close to €3m, by a waste recycling company.

The head of the US Coast Guard (USCG) has made a whistle-stop visit to Ireland amid tight security.

Fáilte Ireland last night sanctioned €2.5m towards the start-up of the Spike Island tourism project.

The Department of Education was overcharged by a total of more than €40,000 by two private partner companies for the running of major colleges.

Despite being in the Dáil til after midnight as the abortion debate rumbled on, a bright-eyed Taoiseach found himself within hours riding the high seas in a powerboat on Cork harbour on one of the most beautiful days of the summer.

The growth in the level of maritime research being carried out in Ireland was highlighted yesterday with the launch of the Halpin Centre for Research and Innovation at the National Maritime College of Ireland in Ringaskiddy.

It was indeed encouraging in this economic climate to read a good news story about Cork Harbour (Irish Examiner, Nov 14).

I refer to your article “Exporting waste — opportunity squandered” which appeared on Tuesday.

WIDESPREAD interest is expected in the sale of a stunning Cork harbour waterfront site now fully vacated by Pfizer.

WORK will commence within the next 10 days to help make safe a toxic dump in Cork harbour.

WORK will commence within the next 10 days to help make safe a toxic dump in Cork harbour.

Indaver Ireland have secured permission of the High Court to challenge An Bord Pleanála's refusal to grant the company planning permission to build a waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

A CO CLARE man who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy was a genius in many fields who would have developed a flying machine only for a deterioration in his health, a conference heard over the weekend.

A MEMBER of the naval service who died in a road accident on Sunday afternoon was buried yesterday with full military honours.

THE HSE has requested that a baseline health study be completed around Cork Harbour before An Bord Pleanála consider sanctioning a toxic incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

FOUR healthcare companies are planning a €30 million wind turbine project in Cork Harbour because of the high price of electricity.

THIRTEEN non-commissioned Naval Service officers made history yesterday when they became the first members of the Defence Forces to be presented with degrees at the National Maritime College.

PERMIT me to ask some simple questions of the Government and its partisan Planning Appeals Board? Where is the validity to classify hazardous toxic waste incineration as “national strategic infrastructure” when:

INDAVER Ireland has rejected claims by Green Party Senator Dan Boyle that incineration is no longer Government policy, pointing out that Mr Boyle’s own party leader has admitted there is a need for two incinerators in the country.

ONE of the country’s largest third-level colleges will not be renewing the contracts of up to 60 staff next autumn as part of a series of cutbacks due to financial pressure.

THE passion and sincerity that animated Brian Cowen’s speeches immediately after his election as Taoiseach were refreshing and immediately reflected in aconsiderable jump in Fianna Fáil’s opinion-poll rating.

WATERFORD Institute of Technology has refused to express any opinion on this week’s application by Cork Institute of Technology to be designated a university.

THE Port of Cork company is applying for permission to relocate its container traffic from Tivoli and the city quays to Ringaskiddy.

POOR communication between schools and the private companies that built them have led to delays improving services, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) annual report.

AN industrial dispute at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) left students unable to make phone or email inquiries about points requirements at the college over the past two days.

A VAST collection of historic documents which sheds light on the early work in Cork of submarine inventor John Phillip Holland was presented to the country’s maritime college yesterday.

THE world’s largest cruise- liner will visit Ireland three times next year but only Cobh’s terminal in Cork will be big enough for it.

A MAJOR sea rescue exercise aimed at skippers and boat owners will take place in Cork tomorrow.

DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea took the salute yesterday from five young men and a woman who became the latest batch of officer cadets to be commissioned at the naval base in Haulbowline.

RESIDENTS have warned the Government they must be consulted on plans for the tourist, residential and commercial development of the former Irish Ispat steelworks in Cork harbour.

The Government has given the green light for a multi-million euro tourism, commercial and residential development on the former Irish ISPAT site on Haulbowline, Co Cork.

THE official opening of the National Maritime College in Ringaskiddy, yesterday, coincided with an inquest into a tragic accident there.