A range of improvements for passengers at Dublin Airport are to be submitted for planning permission.

The Cabinet has approved the establishment of a new planning regulator after a lack of transparency, poor record-keeping and some irregularities in the planning process were found in a number of county councils.

A Cork housewife yesterday told of her shock to learn two 150m-high turbines are to be built near her family home.

A busy southside supermarket in Cork City is proposed for expansion into a neighbourhood centre.

Waterford Council has refused planning permission for a windfarm near the Comeragh Mountains for the second time in four years.

An 86-year-old man and his wife face the prospect of a new four-lane €120m roadway going through their four-bedroom home.

George Harding left school at an early age but never lost his love of poetry. Following his retirement from a successful bicycle business, he went to university and got back on the literary saddle, he tells Colette Sheridan.

Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for a 5,400 sq m solar farm near Macroom, Co Cork.

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An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the first motorway service station to be built in Cork county.

Permission for the redevelopment of a former textile factory in Youghal has been overturned by An Bord Pleanala.

A fourth major supermarket, Aldi, has been given the go-ahead near Youghal’s town centre.

A nursing home faces “a real possibility of closure” after the National Roads Authority succeeded, on grounds of traffic safety, in overturning planning approval for an extension.

US billionaire Donald Trump has finally won his battle against plans for a windfarm near Doonbeg golf course — which he owns — thanks to a little-known freshwater pearl mussel.

AMERICAN billionaire Donald Trump does not seem a natural eco warrior but yesterday’s An Bord Pleanála ruling that brought a four-year battle over a proposed windfarm near his Doonbeg golf resort to an end may cause the Republican presidential hopeful a moment’s pause for thought.

Pre-tax profits at the hotel group that co-owns the luxury five-star Merrion Hotel, in Dublin, increased 9% last year to £2.19m (€3m).

A challenge by An Taisce over planning approval for a controversial €65m road widening scheme on the N86 road between Tralee and Dingle has opened before the Commercial Court.

Cork City Council has confirmed it has received a complaint after the northern stand of Páirc Uí Chaoimh was flattened as part of the stadium’s redevelopment. The demolition had not been listed under the project’s planning permission.

A leading greenway promoter has called for more joined-up thinking as plans progress for several such walking and cycling trails around the country.