Plans were unveiled today for a skyscraper at the heart of a €380m redevelopment of an old iron foundry in Waterford city.

ONE of the country’s leading property development companies has promised 7,000 construction jobs through ambitious plans to spend €1.25bn on the regeneration of 5.5 acres of Dublin city centre.

A TEN-STOREY development planned for the Savoy cinema site on Henry Street brings a low-key local developer’s projects in Limerick to almost €200 million.

Historians and environmentalists have appealed to Dublin City Council to scrap its plans to demolish the house where the leaders of the 1916 Rising decided to surrender.

THE Government is going ahead with its €100 million rebuilding plan for the Abbey Theatre on its existing site.

THE Government is going ahead with its €100 million rebuilding plan for the Abbey Theatre on its existing site.

Fine Gael is to press for Dublin’s most famous theatre, the Abbey, to move into the city’s best-known thoroughfare, O’Connell Street.

The radio personality accused of sexually molesting four young girls has told a Central Criminal Court Jury he was involved in protesting against clerical and child sex abuse.

ARTS Minister John O'Donoghue is to seek Government approval for a public-private partnership scheme to help fund the re-building of the Abbey Theatre.