THE great protection we afford property is seen at its sharpest in our shameful housing crisis.

A bid to overturn An Bord Pleanála’s planning permission to EirGrid for the construction of a 138km-long, north-south interconnector were thrown out in the High Court yesterday by Mr Justice Max Barrett.

The first draft of an enlarged Cork City to drive the region’s growth for the next half century should emerge within weeks.

Property developer Johnny Ronan has made moves to secure planning permission for two flagship developments in Dublin and Wicklow.

Burger King claims it is being unfairly treated after it was refused permission to extend its opening hours in Killarney to 3.30am on special weekends.

Plans for Ireland’s first floating hotel may have to be put on hold after an objection was lodged against planning permission for a river cruiser on Cork’s River Lee.

Irish Air Corps concerns about the impact on helicopter safety of a proposed incinerator in Co Cork can be ameliorated if the company behind the application can guarantee it will contain any risk from the plume to within 150m of the stack.

A Kerry-based charity is to build a €10m respite care centre for sick children near Tralee after winning a four-year battle for planning permission for the facility.

AN Bord Pleanála is rarely given to hyperbole, but remarks by its spokesperson, in the wake of yet another deferment of a decision on an incinerator in the Cork harbour area, is straight out of the Donald Trump book of quotable quotes.

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The longest-running planning saga in An Bord Pleanála’s history is set to drag on after it deferred, for the seventh time, a decision on plans for an incinerator in the Cork Harbour area.

The new national children’s hospital will have to install a water sprinkler system despite efforts by its development board to have this fire safety measure excluded.

The construction of 16 social houses in the “middle” of an existing private estate will lead to new council tenants being “stigmatised”, according to a former Fianna Fáil mayor of Limerick.

Ireland’s long-awaited National Children’s Hospital has been named after the phoenix, and like the mythical firebird, it has risen from its difficult past.

Management at the National Paediatric Hospital has rejected criticism over its fire safety measures after reports that it sought a derogation from some conditions.

A petition against the establishment of a proposed amusement arcade near three secondary schools in a north Cork town has garnered almost 700 signatures over two days.

Residents living next to Apple’s huge European headquarters in Cork have called for compensation following months of disruption caused by construction on its sprawling campus.

A decision on whether to give the go-ahead to plans for a controversial incinerator in Co Cork has been pushed out for the sixth time by the planning authority.

An architect denied harassing neighbours when they built an extension to their home by playing music so loud it was like an earthquake, staring at them, or kicking a football repeatedly against a wall.

Amazon executives will come face to face with the two objectors opposing the first phase of the company’s €1bn data centre plan for Dublin. This follows a ruling by Bord Pleanála that an oral hearing will be held into the plan at its offices on September 26.