THE biggest construction project ever undertaken in south Tipperary is set to commence within months.

JOHN AHERN of Indaver Ireland, (Irish Examiner Letters, November 11) would like us to believe that all is well. His job is to sell incinerators and make huge profits for his overseas shareholders.

TARA, here I am. I have come all the way from Kerry to be with you before the vultures, with bulldozers and JCBs, open your lower belly. They are impatient to inflict the wounds.

AN Bord Pleanála insisted yesterday there was no conflict of interest in hiring outside planning consultants on contract work.

A WORLD famous Co Meath stud farm says it may be forced to shut down because a major landfill dump is coming to the locality.

WORK on redeveloping the RDS complex at Ballsbridge at a cost of €100 million will start shortly and will be completed in phases over ten years, it was confirmed at the opening of the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show yesterday.

I READ, with great care, the amazing full-page advert taken out in the national press by the NRA on the M3/Tara controversy which invited people to “come to their own conclusions”. I have.

A BEEHIVE is how the newest residential scheme in Kinsale, Compass Quay, looked last week.

PLANNING permission for the country’s tallest building, to be constructed next to Cork’s City Hall, has been rubber-stamped by the city council.

PLANNING conditions which discriminate in favour of local residents or relatives of local residents could be unconstitutional, according to the Law Society.

CUT-PRICE designer brands will continue to be stocked on Irish shelves despite a court decision not to allow Tesco in Britain to sell Levi jeans imported from outside Europe.

OVER three-quarters of the planning permissions for one-off houses granted by local authorities were overturned following objections to An Bord Pleanála, their latest annual report has revealed.

THE controversial Corrib gas pipeline was promised a fast-track path through the planning process, documents reveal.

GAA president, Sean Kelly has welcomed An Bord Pleanala’s decision to grant planning permission for a new 232 bedroom hotel on Jones’ Road, opposite Croke Park.

TOP officials from the GAA and members of a local club whose grounds are under threat will make presentations to an oral hearing which begins today.

MORE than 100 objections are expected to be lodged with Bord Pleanála against the new Waterford to Kilcullen dual carriageway.

CORK County Manager Maurice Moloney maintained yesterday that a €200 million O’Flynn Construction project at Dunkettle could not be completed until road improvements are carried out in the area.

THE GAELIC Players Association has reacted angrily to “underhand” moves by GAA chiefs to lure players into a new official players’ body.

A €100 MILLION business and retail park in Cork has been given the go-ahead, subject to conditions, by An Bord Pleanála.