Government plans to fast-track planning for major infrastructure schemes are designed to blame the public for delays, it was claimed today.

The employers' body IBEC is calling for the establishment of a special court system to speed up legal challenges to infrastructure projects.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely could reportedly be forced to demolish a garage conversion next to his Co Cork holiday home as it breached planning laws.

The Government is reportedly due to publish planned new legislation today aimed at fast-tracking major infrastructure projects.

A waste management company is to lodge a new planning application seeking to increase the size of a controversial incineration plant being built in Co Meath, it emerged today.

An Bord Pleanala is to be restructured in a bid to deliver major infrastructure decisions more quickly, the Government said today.

An Bord Pleanala has upheld an appeal against a €25m superdump planned for the Meath-Kildare border.

An environmentalist who lost his court challenge to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today had legal costs of up to €600,000 awarded against him.

EirGrid is insisting that its controversial new GridLink project cannot be located underground.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has questioned the reasoning behind anti-pylon candidates running in the local elections.

Supermacs has been told it has to remove its signage and change its shopfront in Temple Bar in Dublin.

Sinn Féin has questioned whether Phil Hogan is suitable to serve as Ireland's next EU Commissioner.

Planners have overturned a Dublin City Council decision to allow the facade of the former Bewleys on

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NAMA chief executive Brendan McDonagh has today welcomed the announcement by An Bord Pleanála of its approval for the Dublin Docklands SDZ planning scheme.

The GAA has said it accepts recommendations put forward in the latest effort to resolve a row with residents around Croke Park in Dublin.

A new €100m development at the Royal Dublin Society grounds in Dublin was today given the go-ahead.

A Fianna Fáil candidate blamed a “media witchunt” on his family for pulling out of the forthcoming Meath by-election, it emerged tonight.

A couple who fought for 15 years to secure planning permission to develop one of the world’s largest stalactites as a tourist attraction could face another hurdle, it emerged today.

The upgrading of the M50 ring road around Dublin will only create a massive car park, the Green Party warned today.

An Bord Pleanala has approved plans to widen the M50 motorway that orbits the western outskirts of Dublin.