INDAVER Ireland doesn’t believe its planned €140 million incinerator in Cork Harbour is under threat following a report commissioned by the Minister of the Environment that recommended capping the amount of waste that can be incinerated in this country.

THE Dublin Docklands Development Authority has brought a preliminary application aimed at having developer Bernard McNamara’s company Donatex Ltd provide security for the costs of their legal action alleging the authority exposed them to claims of more than €108 million over the purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site at Ringsend.

ANTI-PIPELINE protesters in Mayo have vowed to continue with their campaign of opposition to Shell’s Corrib gas line development despite “extreme pressure from the state”.

A RULING by An Bord Pleanála to uphold an objection to expand Limerick’s Crescent Shopping Centre will cost up to 400 retail jobs, it was claimed yesterday.

THE cyber age’s bid to spread its message into a pristine landscape has perished between a rock and a hard place in a Bronze Age valley.

GALWAY got a massive jobs boost last night when the green light was given to the redevelopment of the city’s main shopping centre, creating more than 1,000 jobs.

GAA chiefs have received an official request from the IRFU to play Leinster’s Heineken Cup game with Brive at Croke Park on Saturday – should the RDS be deemed unplayable.

NATIONAL Park authorities in Killarney have been given the all-clear to allow treated effluent from an old world café flow into a lakeland area.

THE livelihoods of inshore fishermen will be wiped out if the Port of Cork builds a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

IT HAS emerged that Cork is to the forefront of an EU drive to create “Motorways of the Seas”, with the aim of reducing pollution and container transport costs.

PLANS to develop a €226m container terminal in Cork Harbour will not damage its sailing pursuits or property prices, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

THE taxpayer will foot a €1 million-plus bill to clean up a 30-year-old asbestos dump in Cork harbour.

A BORD Pleanála oral hearing was yesterday told that the Oyster Bank at Ringaskiddy was the most suitable of three sites examined for the Port of Cork’s proposed new €226 million container and cargo terminal.

THE Port of Cork yesterday rubbished a rival port’s objection to its plans to build a €226 million container and cargo terminal at Ringaskiddy in Co Cork.

AN BORD Pleanála will open an oral hearing this morning about plans by the Port of Cork to build a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour.

EFFORTS to secure the rezoning of one of Cork’s great rugby grounds for development have kicked off.

DESPITE concerns about inadequate roads, water and sewerage services in one of Kerry’s fastest developing villages, An Bord Pleanála has given the all-clear for another housing estate.

A DECISION by An Bórd Pleanála to grant planning permission for a new school on land zoned for sport is final, Cork city councillors will be told tonight.

A CAMPAIGN to breathe new life into Tralee town centre has been boosted by a decision to grant planning permission for a 900-square metre extension to a shopping centre.

FEATHERS are being ruffled in one of Limerick’s most fashionable addresses over birds of prey.