An Bórd Pleanála is set to make a key decision within days which will determine the timeline for delivery of Cork’s first flood defences.

New policies for a more aggressive approach to tackling dereliction in Cork city have been agreed as work finally starts on a 255-bed student apartment complex on a long-term derelict site.

Waterford Council has approved planning for one of the country’s largest solar farms in a scenic region of mid-Waterford.

Waterford have been refused permission to play their 2020 Munster SHC home games at a Leinster venue, in the event of Walsh Park being unavailable.

Cork City’s 17-storey Elysian apartment building may be about to get a neighbouring tower, with planning permission set to be lodged this week for an apartment development of 118 units 200m away.

Fast track planning permission is being sought this week for a 17-storey apartment tower, on Cork city’s South Link Road, on a compact site previously a rail track goods yard and sidings.

The developer of the long-delayed Event Centre in Cork has submitted a redesign of the project to the local authority in a bid to allay the concerns of City Council planners.

The company behind Dublin’s Citywest and Kilkenny’s Mount Juliet hotels look set to proceed with a new project on Cork City’s Parnell Place after an objection lodged with the planning watchdog was withdrawn.

A State fisheries body has succeeded in stopping the development of holiday homes on the Ring of Kerry over fears it could cause pollution to a local river.

Some of the cabling for the part of the €930m Celtic Interconnector, from France to Ireland, may run along the former Midleton-Youghal railway.

He already has permission to build Ireland's new tallest building at Tara Street after a successful appeal to an Bord Pleanála last month.

Cork County Council is set to seek planning permission in the next few weeks for an iconic €7m project aimed at transforming the country’s most south-westerly island into a tourist mecca.

Residents objecting to a proposed extension to an imposing beachside dwelling claim Cork County Council contravened its own development plans.

Plans to convert a 1960s office block in one of Cork's most desirable residential areas into a €10m social housing scheme have been unveiled.

The longest-serving councillor in Cork City has called for an emergency meeting after a European Court ruling delayed a key part of the city’s flood defences.

A fast-tracked housing project for Dublin which was due to begin construction in 2017 now faces a three-year delay.

One of Ireland’s most successful developers says he hopes to build around 1,300 new homes in a Cork suburb within the next 10 years.

Kerry County Council has taken another step towards the development of a cycling greenway on the Ring of Kerry that it hopes will become a major tourist attraction.

Developer Johnny Ronan’s development group has stated that it is ‘bewildered’ and ‘disappointed’ by the Bord Pleanála decision to refuse planning permission for its 22 storey tower at George's Quay in Dublin.

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.

Clare County Council’s €7m- a-year “cash cow” at one of the country’s most popular visitor attractions, the Cliffs of Moher is under threat.

More than 400 students could get to live in purpose-built Cork City centre accommodation as part of revisions to the long-awaited events centre.

Applegreen’s plans of expanding its motorway service stop network has received a blow.

Plans by Supermac’s chief Pat McDonagh for a network of motorway forecourts have been dealt a blow after An Bord Pleanála refused permission for a rest stop on the Limerick to Gort road, outside Ennis.

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

A fast-track planning process for large developments and a special ‘use it or lose it’ infrastructure fund for local authorities are options being considered to help solve the housing crisis, Housing Minister Simon Coveney has said.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney wants to lead this country out of its housing emergency and he has a number ideas to facilitate the fast-tracking of housing development, while keeping a robust planning process, writes Juno McEnroe

Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a new 5,300-house town 6km north of Cork City.

Council may give lease to firm operating proposed incinerator

Well-known Dublin hotel, Wynn’s has put the brakes on a €16m plan by property investment fund Tetrarch Capital to build a new boutique hotel off O’Connell Street.

Waste management company Indaver is in talks with Cork County Council to bury, in a mothballed landfill site, up to 40,000 tonnes of ash yearly from a proposed €160m controversial incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

The developers of the site where U2 recorded some of their albums have failed in their battle with Dublin City Council over a disputed Luas Red Line payment of almost €500,000.

Developers say no flooding risk to Blackpool, but OPW says centre appears to be located on floodplain

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

The chief executive of Munster Rugby has criticised the Government for failing to fund the most urgently needed road connection in the country, and says the oversight will damage the regional economy.

The resurrected plan to build a new town with 5,800 houses on the northern outskirts of Cork City will go to An Bord Pleanála again after a number of groups and individuals objected to it.

The Port of Waterford has dropped plans to seek a judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant planning for the Port of Cork’s €100 million expansion at Ringaskiddy.

A body has been found in during the search for Barry Davis Ryan in Baltimore; At least two people have died in a shooting in Germany; Tourists are being advised to leave the Tunisia immediately. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the first motorway service station to be built in Cork county.