A BORD PLEANÁLA decision to approve plans for 600 homes in Passage West in Cork despite being urged by one of its own inspectors to refuse permission will lead to traffic congestion, locals warned last night.

COMPLAINTS from supposedly concerned readers about the M3 near Tara continue to flood the letters pages.

FOLLOWING the recent landslide in north Mayo, it is not surprising that fresh controversy has erupted among local residents, fishermen, small farmers and politicians in the wake of new moves by Shell to get planning permission to build a gas terminal in the area.

FOR more than 20 years successive governments have neglected environmental issues. They invited pharmaceutical and chemical companies to set up business in Ireland without any obligation to find new production methods in order to avoid toxic waste.

ONE of Ireland’s leading property developers has won a planning dispute - with his sister-in-law.

THE opening day of a Bord Pleanála hearing in Dungarvan yesterday into Waterford County Council’s proposal to develop a landfill outside the town, was told that in an ideal world waste would be buried five miles underground.

PROPOSALS to fast-track major infrastructure projects through a special division of An Bord Pleanála are a denial of democracy.

TRANSPORT Minister Séamus Brennan yesterday criticised a move by Ryanair to hamper plans to bring thousands of tourists into Ireland next summer.

IT appears that, eventually, people in high places have become aware of the shenanigans and skulduggery that An Taisce have been getting up to for a number of years.

OUTRAGED community groups will seek an oral hearing into yesterday’s decision by the Environment Protection Agency to grant a draft licence to Indaver (Ireland) for waste incineration plants in Cork and Meath.

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.

A GROUP of residents in West Cork has vowed to take their fight against a €14m reservoir all the way to the European Court if An Bord Pleanála doesn’t turn it down.