Cork’s city manager has invited the private sector to pitch for public funding in a bid to secure the development of a large-scale events centre in the city.

After two routes for a bypass of Adare were rejected after years of talks, Limerick County Council is now embarking on a third attempt to get the road project underway.

Proposals to continue using the Reeks Gateway building in Killarney as a medical centre are meeting with further planning delays.

A fresh bid will be made tonight to kickstart the development of a publicly funded multimillion-euro conference centre in Cork.

Plans for the €40m Shannon Bridge Crossing are heading for choppy waters after a leading environmental campaigner confirmed his intention to seek a judicial review.

In the aftermath of a building boom dogged by poor planning and a tribunal that found corruption rife in the system, the Cabinet has approved proposals to establish a planning regulator.

The thumbs down has been given to a district heating system capable of providing cheaper hot water for 5,000 homes in Killarney.

Planners are confident of getting the green light from An Bord Pleanála to build a new town in Co Cork, despite the current economic climate.

An Bord Pleanála has given the green light to National Roads Authority (NRA) plans for a €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange.

Construction of a €10m Tesco outlet in Bantry, Co Cork, is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2013 after An Bord Pleanála gave permission for the 25,000 sq ft facility at the weekend.

Prize money for the coming year will be maintained at the current levels, the Curragh redevelopment will return to the agenda and a new programme will be drawn up to attract new owners to Irish racing.

More than 40 consultants have called for the long-delayed national children’s hospital — set to be based at St James’s — to be directly linked to a leading maternity site.

St James’s Hospital is set to win the long-running race to be named the new National Children’s Hospital site.

The Taoiseach, Tánaiste, and health minister have met to discuss the proposed location for the national children’s hospital.

The national children’s hospital proposed for St James’s in Dublin could run into IT and planning trouble but the Government has insisted it is the best choice of location.

Some 19 years after a national children’s hospital was first mooted, and three years after the first deadline to build it was missed, St James’s has become the project’s site.

The decision to locate the national children’s hospital at Dublin’s St James’s Hospital is to be welcomed, not because the location is head and shoulders above other options but because this saga has dragged on for far too long.

The national children’s hospital will be delayed beyond 2016 — and now legal uncertainty surrounds the charity established to raise millions for the project.

Bord Pleanála has given the Diocese of Kerry permission to carry out some, but not all, of the extensive renovations and reordering, it considers necessary to the parish church of St John in Ballybunion.

It was one of the signature deals of the boom.