Entrepreneur Jay Bourke said yesterday that he is delighted with the performance of his Market Bar, with figures showing that the business recorded pre-tax profits of €407,372 in 2012.

A “laughing stock" of a rule which bans telecommunications masts from being erected within 1km of houses and other residential buildings in Kerry is to be retained.

The Government was yesterday accused of "political sharp practice" for sanctioning, a week before the local elections, a €30m grant of taxpayers’ money to help fund the €70m regeneration of Pairc Uí Chaoimh in Cork.

The Government has sanctioned a €30m grant to help fund the GAA’s ambitious €70m regeneration of Cork’s flagship Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium.

Contracts worth almost €2m have been signed to upgrade the Haulbowline Island bridges to facilitate the multi-million clean-up of the former Irish Steel toxic dump site.

There are hopes work can soon commence on upgrading one of the country’s top tourist routes, a project that would also include cycleways.

A failure by An Bord Pleanála to consider the needs of cyclists and pedestrians when it refused permission for a major road-widening scheme extending 28km between Tralee and Daingean in Co Kerry has led to a High Court order overturning that refusal.

The housing minister has ordered a fresh probe into the planning system in six local authorities.

THIS year marks an important anniversary.

Work should be clear to proceed on a redevelopment of the Dell computer plant in Limerick into a €300 million medical manufacturing facility after withdrawal of an appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

The withdrawn plans for a major new office complex on Cork’s Albert Quay have been replaced with a new application from joint developers BAM Property Ltd & Progressive Commercial Construction Ltd.

Plans for the €70m upgrade of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork have been given the green light by the council.

Progressive Commercial Construction’s application for a major office development on Cork’s Albert Quay has been withdrawn.

Plans for a nine-storey office block in the heart of Cork City with the potential to deliver up to 2,000 jobs, have been dealt a fresh blow after the High Court granted a judicial review of planning permission for the development.

A €220m development for the former Dell site in Limerick can proceed following a decision by An Taisce to withdraw its appeal with An Bord Pleanála.

An Bord Pleanála has approved an ambitious €40m remediation plan to transform one of the State’s worst environmental disaster zones into a large public park.

German discount store Aldi has secured planning permission for a 10,000sq ft (929sq m) supermarket in Skibbereen.

Plans for a nine-storey office block in the heart of Cork City with the potential to deliver up to 2,000 jobs have been withdrawn — even though the local authority gave it the green light.

There are still massive gaps to be addressed five years after the publication of the Ryan report, a group that supports young people in care said yesterday.