A planning green light has been give for a 25 storey apartment tower in Cork city has just been approved for the Sextant pub/Carey Tools site in Cork city centre, sandwiched between two major office developments.

It’s not exactly Times Square in New York, but the owners of the Stephen’s Green shopping centre in Dublin face having to remove the large digital advertising sign over its main entrance because of its visual impact on the surrounding area.

A failure to include the names and addresses of residents objecting to housing in north Dublin meant their appeal against the development was invalid, the High Court ruled.

A High Court challenge has been taken over An Bord Pleanála's permission for construction of 245 apartments and a childcare facility on part of the former premier Dairies site in Dublin.

A challenge to An Bord Pleanála's permission for a wind farm straddling the Laois-Kilkenny border is to be fast-tracked in the Commercial Court.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a grant of permission for construction of an ocean wall at Donald Trump’s golf club resort at Doonbeg in Co Clare.

The €80m concert and event centre proposed for Cork has cleared its final planning hurdle following the rejection of an appeal.

Plans by one of Munster’s leading hotel groups to break into the Dublin market have suffered a major setback after its proposal for a €50m new five-star facility was rejected.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission to Trump Doonbeg’s contentious plans for coastal protection plans at the west Clare course.

An Bord Pleanála has reversed Cork County Council decision to grant planning permission for 55 new houses in Glounthaune .

The number of houses granted planning permission in 2019 fell for the first time in seven years, as the number of apartments granted permission rose sharply, according to new CSO figures.

Politics, just like nature, abhors a vacuum. The power void left by February’s general election has been instantly filled by the looming horror and scale of the coronavirus health crisis.

A controversial visitor centre, planned for the Dublin Mountains, will not have an adverse impact on protected wildlife and habitats.

The promoters of a controversial new visitor centre proposed for the Dublin Mountain have claimed it will have no adverse impact on protected wildlife and habitats in the area.

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has won a planning contribution row, saving it nearly €335,000 in costs, with Dublin City Council regarding the university’s planned new €60m E3 Foundry facility.

Plans for a €12.5m development of a large new school building by Christian Brothers College in Cork has to be put on hold as two objections to the facility have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

The High Court has overturned, on consent, An Bord Pleanála's permission for increased height of two blocks of apartments in a development of 500 apartments/co-living spaces in the north Dublin docklands.

The planned €1bn motorway linking Cork and Limerick will run mainly along the current N20 corridor via Charleville and Mallow, it has been confirmed.

Developers seeking 'fast track' planning permissions from An Bord Pleanála have suffered a triple blow.

The appeals board has given Pat Crean’s Marlet Group the green light in spite of strong local opposition against the plan.