Quinlan’s Seafood Bar is seeking to expand into number 55 Oliver Plunkett Street.

The Kerry-based hotel group behind the last-minute legal challenge to the €50m state-funding package for Cork's event centre has been accused of lodging a “nasty, vexatious, commercial ambush” on the stalled project.

Mr Thomas Reid is seeking to legally challenge a decision by An Bord Pleanála made last November to grant the computer chip manufacturing giant planning permission to expand its manufacturing facility at Collinstown, in Leixlip.

The council has refused planning permission to an application by the owners of the proposed new facility at the corner of Harcourt Street and Montague Street for lifting a condition which restricts its opening hours to

Planning permission has been granted for the development of an apartment complex on the site of a well-known former pub in Cork city, despite objections from a number of local residents including a city councillor.

It is the first time Cork City Council will have issued such fines, which are designed to motivate the development of vacant sites and to reduce land hoarding.

Dublin City Council has told a company owned by developer, Johnny Ronan, to keep the noise down in its planned new ‘live-work’ venture at Mr Ronan’s luxury Embassy House in Dublin 4.

Farmer Thomas Reid is seeking to bring a High Court challenge to An Bord Pleanála's go ahead for computer chip giant Intel Ireland's €3.6 billion expansion in Leixlip, Co Kildare.

Plans for a major extension of the Jurys Inn hotel in Galway have to be put on hold following objections from a number of parties, including An Taisce.

An Bord Pleanála has given the green light to house builder, Cairn Homes to construct 426 residential units near Greystones in Co Wicklow.

The first phase of the project, which is being developed by Cork County Council, will focus on developing a launch area for boats/kayaks close to Mallow bridge.

Eight years ago councillors designated iconic places such as Ballybunion as being of “no scenic importance” and therefore suitable for wind energy development.

The future of several major stud farms in Co Kildare is under threat from the proposed development of a quarry near Kilcullen, according to leading figures in the horse racing industry.

It must be welcomed that five siblings who have been living in direct provision while attending school or college in Cork for a number of years will not be deported.

The High Court has overturned, on consent, a planning permission for construction of 164 homes on the site of a disused hotel in Howth village.

Christian Brothers College (CBC), one of Cork’s best-known fee-paying schools, has been given the go-ahead for a €12.5m development at its Sidney Hill campus.

Planning permission has been granted for a new cultural centre, including prayer rooms, for Muslims living in Clonmel, Co Tipperary despite strong opposition from a large group of local residents.

Uprooting from a city quayside site after six decades will be a pleasant wrench for a Cork business – in return for moving, Carey Tool Hire is getting a brand new building, on a three-acre Ring Road site, passed by up to 100,000 cars a day, plus a multi-million euro site sale windfall.

A proposal to rezone sports land for an apartments scheme planned by a well-known Cork hurling club has been shot down.

Last November, Goodman firm, Ternary Ltd lodged plans to demolish 47, 48 & 49 Kildare Street and No 1 Nassau Street to make way for a new office development.