AN TAISCE has dismissed a number of its members in the west amid claims they were trying to infiltrate and destroy the conservation body.

COLD water is continuing to be poured over an €8.5m development plan for the Great Blasket island.

Just right for the family: The bungalow on Uam Var estate, Cork, is expected to promote keen interest with offer price of €274,000.

THE number of houses in the Gaeltacht reserved for Irish speakers is to be linked to the percentage of those who speak the language, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

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

SOME of your correspondents who have challenged the decision to proceed with a toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy are under the illusion that we live in a democracy.

AN BORD Pleanála has granted planning permission to the Royal Dublin Society for a 100 million office complex, despite local objections.

OVER the last five years, my beautiful, tiny village of Caherdaniel in Co Kerry, and its immediate catchment area of Derrynane, has been shattered and its citizens traumatised.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Mansfield has expressed “extreme disappointment” at a decision by An Bord Pleanála to block his plans to build a €50m conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex near Saggart, Co Dublin.

AN Bord Pleanála is to hold two oral hearings next week on major projects which are planned for Co Cork.

WILMOUNT Terrace in Cobh has a crow’s nest perch above Cork harbour - and that’s perhaps part of the reason why the daughter of a long-serving Cork harbour pilot lived at this address for many years.

A LANDMARK decision by An Bord Pleanála will force a builder to allocate 20% of an upmarket development to social and affordable housing.

A BROTHER of JP McManus, Gerry McManus and his wife Michelle, have been given permission by An Bord Pleanala to demolish sections of the period property Fedamore House in Co Limerick.

APPROVAL has been granted for a controversial section of motorway to run through a historic battlefield site tagged Ireland’s Gettysburg.

MY God, what an effective Taoiseach and Government we have.

THERE are 300,000 "ghost voters" on the electoral register, because the system is an "appalling mess", Environment Minister Dick Roche, has admitted.

IN a letter (Irish Examiner, December 29), I challenged An Bord Pleanála, the EPA and Indaver Ireland Ltd to deny that the proposed Ringaskiddy incinerators will discharge toxic ash and poisonous emissions to the atmosphere.

THE board of management of a national school has objected to a multi-million euro housing development because it would not be able to cope with the surge in extra children.

THE company planning to build the country’s first toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Co Cork yesterday said Defence Minister Willie O’Dea should leave the matter to the State and judicial agencies responsible for it.

OBJECTORS to the country’s first household waste incinerator are to continue their fight in the courts after An Bord Pleanála cleared the construction of the facility yesterday.