The Bandon flood relief scheme will not now begin until May 2014, meaning the town will continue to face the risk of flooding for some time to come.

The Department of the Environment has given assurances that money is in place to complete a major sewerage scheme in a Co Cork town, but work will not restart until next summer at the earliest.

It was one of the most controversial road schemes ever built — but now the M3 motorway is making tens of millions of euro in profits for its private operator.

Irish construction firm SIAC has a full menu of projects in the pipeline, having just completed the re-development of London’s iconic Leicester Square.

The head of one of the country’s largest construction firms said yesterday that most of the main opportunities for the group lie outside of the country.

A 25-YEAR-OLD physiotherapist who claimed she had tripped on a “lip” on the road in Foxrock, has been awarded €19,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

TWO pedestrian bridges over one of Cork city’s busiest roads will be demolished during the October Bank Holiday weekend.

PRE-tax profits at one of the west of Ireland’s largest civil engineering firms decreased by 8% in 2009 to €641,782 in spite of an increase in revenues.

An extra 22 jobs are being created at a Co Down tunnelling company, it was revealed today.

Five demonstrators have been arrested during a protest against the route of the M3 motorway in Co Meath today.

CINTRA, a toll-road operator controlled by Spanish builder Grupo Ferrovial, signed a contract to build and manage its second motorway in Ireland.

HANK FOGARTY Fogarty was announced yesterday as the new president of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF). Mr Fogarty is a director of SIAC Construction and succeeds Norbert O’Reilly of Pierse.

One of the men behind the construction of the O'Connell Street Spire has been handed the task of rebuilding Wicklow's championship summer.

Eyre Square in Galway re-opens today after a controversial three-year redevelopment project.

The re-opening of Eyre Square after a controversial redevelopment project is good news for the people of Galway, it was claimed today.

THE €9 million transformation of Galway’s Eyre Square is expected to be completed in time for Easter. Work on the city centre project, which resumed in October, is being carried out by SIAC Construction.

THE spire lit up for the first time last night, six months after it was first erected in Dublin’s O’Connell Street.