The owners of the four-star Clarence Hotel, which include Bono and the Edge, are not proceeding with a High Court action against a refusal by Dublin City Council to extend planning permission for a €150m proposal to transform the premises.

Plans by Bono and The Edge to revive their parked €150m revamp of Dublin’s Clarence Hotel were stopped in their tracks by Dublin City Council, the High Court heard yesterday.

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With typical flair, Richard Branson today announced that he and his children will be the first passengers when the Virgin Galactic space tourism programme begins.

A YOUNG boy, his face pressed firm against the plate glass, points in the direction of a towering, twisting hulk of clay-red metal in the middle distance asks “Is that a roller coaster, daddy?” His father, reading off an inscription on a nearby viewing panel replies: “No son, it says here it’s a piece of art.”

WATERFORD will celebrate its architectural Viking and crystal-making history this weekend when up to 3,000 visitors are expected to attend a festival based on craftsmanship.

PLANS for Ireland’s first skyscraper — the U2 Tower — has become the latest victim of the economic downturn.

BONO has received approval for a €150 million remodelling of his Dublin hotel that will triple the property’s size and top it with a panoramic glass bar.

An Bord Pleanala have granted planning permission for the development at the Clarence Hotel in Dublin

A towering 71-storey skyscraper to rival the Eiffel Tower is to be built on the edge of Paris.

IT IS normally blanket coverage when Barcelona play Real Madrid in La Liga’s El Clasico – but Valencia have been doing their best to muscle in on the media action this week.

IF the construction of sporting stadia were the barometer of economic well-being instead of housing, you would be forgiven for thinking the world is in a golden age of uncharted prosperity.

Internationally renowned British architect Norman Foster was today announced as the visionary behind Ireland’s first skyscraper – the U2 Tower.

HERITAGE experts have dubbed €65 million plans by rock band U2 to revamp one of Dublin’s most exclusive hotels as “execrable”.

US architect Thom Mayne — a rebel known for his love of risk-taking — has been chosen to build Paris’s tallest-ever skyscraper, rivalled in height only by the Eiffel Tower.

The Swiss owner of the iconic Gherkin tower in London today said it would axe up to 2,000 jobs by the end of next year.

A modern roadway bridge in France, hailed as the tallest in the world, is to be officially inaugurated today.

One of Ireland’s oldest trains was back on track today after undergoing an £85,000 (€127,900) overhaul.

SHELBOURNE Developments may walk away from the €364.5 million property deal to buy the Lloyd’s insurance building in London.

French construction workers have nearly completed work on the roadway of the world’s tallest traffic bridge, a viaduct that soars over a valley in southern France.

Germany has turned down a request by Tom Cruise to shoot scenes for 'Mission Impossible 3' in a government building.