A spectacular headland in West Cork is getting a facelift in a €300,000 project.

A waste management firm has been told to cover the costs incurred by a group opposed to its incineration plans after the High Court ruled its behaviour during a legal action amounted to abuse of process.

It is hoped up to 4,000 jobs will be secured after An Bord Pleanála last night granted permission to four healthcare companies to build €30m wind turbines in Cork Harbour.

Golfer Christy O’Connor Jr has brought a High Court challenge over a dispute about planning permission he obtained for three houses on family land.

The controversial building of a new school on playing fields on Cork’s northside is to go ahead as part of next year’s €370m schools capital programme.

The planning appeals board and an environmental lobby group are to pursue waste management firm, Indaver Ireland, for costs today after it withdrew an application for a judicial review of a refusal by An Bord Pleanála to grant permission for its twin incinerator project in Cork.

Dublin commuters could face significant disruption due to a cancelled public meeting on the future traffic and pedestrian arrangements on College Green.

Dublin's College Green area could be hit with major traffic restrictions, after a €10m Civic Plaza project was delayed.

It's either a feast or a famine, as the saying goes. But the Government delivered a little bit of both during its Cabinet meeting in Cork today.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a local group over its failed challenge to An Bord Pleanala's permission for a €46m wind farm close to the village of Lixnaw in Co Kerry.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed the M20 Cork/Limerick motorway will be part of the 10-year capital spending plan to be announced in December.

Permission to build a large mosque in West Dublin is being appealed to An Bord Pleanala.

The High Court has ruled that Apple's data centre in Athenry can go ahead.

Ireland's international business reputation has been damaged by delays to the Apple data centre in Athenry, according to IBEC.

A company of developer John O'Flynn has brought a legal challenge against An Bord Pleanala's refusal to grant planning permission for 34 houses and a roadway in South County Dublin.

Two local residents have asked a High Court judge to allow them appeal his decision clearing the way for tech giant Apple to develop the first phase of a planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.

The new National Children's Hospital has been ordered to install a more extensive sprinkler system.

The Health Minister Simon Harris says An Bord Pleanála will have the final say on the fire requirements for the new National Children's Hospital.

The board of the National Children's Hospital has said the provision of fire sprinkler protection measures in the new hospital will exceed the number that is set out within fire safety legislation.

Two local residents have applied to the Supreme Court to permission to bring an appeal over the High Court's rejection of their challenge to permission for tech giant Apple to develop the first phase of a planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.