A controversial Sacred Heart statue is to remain in its ground-level position outside Killarney Community Hospital, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a Cork City Council vote and granted planning permission for a retail centre, including an off-licence, in a business park near CIT.

Eirgrid has rejected arguments for putting a high-voltage electricity line, which is planned to run through a large stretch of West Cork, underground.

Beautiful countryside across two unspoilt valleys will be scarred by a controversial electricity transmission line snaking its way through West Cork, it has been claimed.

I refer to your article “Exporting waste — opportunity squandered” which appeared on Tuesday.

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the erection of a 40km overhead power line through West Cork, despite the view of its inspector a “strong case” could be made for undergrounding a section of the line.

Cork city councillors want the environment minister to overhaul An Bord Pleanála amid claims it has rendered the city’s development plan useless.

Limerick Youth Service is to redevelop the 19th century Ballyloughran House in north Kerry as a weekend hostel for young people from Limerick City and other regions.

A proposed new town north of Cork City could become gridlocked with traffic if the National Roads Authority maintains its refusal to provide a full junction connection to the planned Northern Ring Road.

A Cork Gaelscoil has welcomed a court decision that should let its new school building go ahead.

Desperate efforts are being made to save Kerry’s only existing primary care centre after the Killarney centre’s management company, Prime Healthcare, became insolvent earlier this year.

As partners for the past 11 years of the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment, we were relieved at the decision of Indaver to abandon its legal challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s planning refusal for their incinerators at Ringaskiddy.

Doonbeg Golf Club has joined forces with the Irish Peatland Conservation Council and Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) in opposing plans for a €200m wind farm in Clare.

Waste management company Indaver has sensationally dropped its High Court challenge against An Bord Pleanála’s decision to refuse permission for its €140m incinerator in Cork Harbour.

Residents in Cork Harbour are facing another massive battle with Indaver after it confirmed plans last night to lodge a third planning application for a €140m incinerator in the area.

O’Callaghan Properties are looking for up to €25m for the 180-bed River Lee hotel they built in 2006 on the old Jurys Hotel site in Cork city.

Cork city councillors have moved to seek a High Court review of a Bord Pleanála decision that overturned a unanimous council vote and changed the city development plan for a retail project.

Presidency preparations at fever pitch

PEOPLE fret nowadays when there’s a focus on the impact of a development, such as a windfarm on wildlife.

Plans for the country’s largest district heating system, which involves a timber-based biomass plant in Killarney, Co Kerry, have been rejected by the town council.