A legal bid to curtail the sound of music and hours of skating at an ice rink near Dundrum Town Centre has been thrown out by a High Court judge.

Cork City Council has been accused of giving the GAA “the freedom to do what they choose” after the developers of the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh demolished existing stands that were to be retained, according to the planning permission conditions granted to the project.

Nama bosses have warned Finance Minister Michael Noonan they must have flexibility in deciding pay levels for key staff, if the agency is to deliver its €4.5bn house building programme.

The biggest fine for environmental damage ever handed down by an Irish court has not been paid and the company responsible is now under final notice to comply.

Indaver, which was previously refused planning permission for an incinerator in Cork Harbour, is to lodge another application next week for a €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

The Port of Cork is set to put the city’s historic Custom House on the market in the coming weeks as it advances plans to relocate to Ringaskiddy.

Some homeowners on the country’s most exclusive road are trying to block plans by one of their neighbours to carry out a house makeover that includes an underground cinema.

American software company Tableau is to allow its users choose where they want their data stored after unveiling its first European data centre in Dublin.

A dispute between a company of property developer and investor Michael O’Flynn and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council over a refusal of planning permission for a €75m residential development in south Dublin will be heard by the Commercial Court in May.

Residents from the north Dublin suburb of Swords are trying to block the local Muslim community from establishing a prayer, cultural, and community centre at a site in the area.