A Cork automation technology company is aiming for further growth after one of the world’s biggest pharmaceuticals bought a stake in it.

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.

There is no doubt that major industrial development projects require robust and accelerated approval processes.

A new €14m engineering- focused campus is to be opened by Limerick Institute of Technology in a year’s time.

A consortium has been appointed to transform the former Haulbowline steelworks dump into a multimillion-euro park and tourist attraction.

A bitter row over a disputed right of way near the Lakes of Killarney is set to erupt again after An Bord Pleanála ruled that a gate erected to block public access to the lakeshore is not exempt from planning permission requirements.

Fair City is on the move — but not without the accustomed controversy.

A decision to grant planning permission for a bookmaker’s pemises in a former retail shop in Tralee town centre has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.

Details of the long-awaited extension of Cork’s city boundary could emerge within weeks.

The company planning to build a 240,000-tonne capacity incinerator in Cork Harbour has grossly underestimated the risk zone around its chimney stack, local campaigners have claimed.

IT’S AN upland landscape that has inspired poets and traditional musicians for centuries, but it could soon be dominated by lofty wind turbines, writes Donal Hickey

That there will soon be more plastic than fish in the sea doesn’t even take into account the inevitable decline in fish stocks, writes Victoria White.

One of the biggest names in construction circles during the boom years Bernard McNamara has been granted approval, through his Roxtip Ltd company, by Fingal County Council to construct 31 houses on lands at Beaverbrook in Donabate, north Co Dublin.

The number of appeals to An Bord Pleanála involving developments of over 30 houses has increased significantly in the last four years.

A group representing independent supermarkets has failed to block the development of a large new Lidl outlet in north Cork.

Johnny Ronan’s Ronan Group Real Estate is to appeal against Dublin City Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for a 22-storey tower in the city centre.

The German Ambassador to Ireland, Matthias Hopfner has objected to the scale of plans for a new 53-bedroom hotel in central Dublin.

A paralysed woman is heartbroken because plans to build her “dream home” in Co Limerick were refused planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.