Fencing at the centre of a long-running dispute between some landowners on Fenit Island, Co Kerry, and local people, is not exempted from requiring planning permission, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

Almost €60m has been spent on the new National Children’s Hospital which has yet to be built, it emerged yesterday.

The Port of Waterford is to seek a judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant planning permission for the €100m expansion of the Port of Cork.

The decision to award planning permission to the Port of Cork’s €100m redevelopment of Ringaskiddy harbour has been met with mixed reaction from local representatives in the area.

Planning permission is expected to be lodged in September for a €10m FAI regional centre for soccer excellence in Co Cork.

The landmark One Albert Quay office block, nearing completion in Cork’s docklands, is poised to become one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in Europe.

A farmer who faces the risk of losing his 100-acre dairy holding said yesterday it was like a sword over his head, after a High Court judge put off a decision on who will pay the costs of a six-day court challenge to a €70m Tipperary windfarm.

An ESB subsidiary has lodged an application for a windfarm spanning more than 30 townlands across Cork and Kerry.

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland has launched a housing policy which could help to deliver sustainable housing solutions as the country’s population grows to almost 6m over the next 30 years.

A proposed wind farm development in North Tipperary which had been challenged in the High Court by local residents and environmentalists, has been given the go-ahead by a judge.

Property group, Green Reit has won its planning battle with An Taisce over its plans to demolish a landmark building and erect a new six-storey office block on Dublin’s Dawson Street.

A major new office and mixed commercial scheme in Georgian Dublin has been approved by An Bord Pleanála. It related to plans to demolish 20th-century buildings on the development site, a block incorporating parts of Fitzwilliam Street Lower and Mount Street Upper in Dublin 2, and which currently include ESB’s headquarters.

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

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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.

A single farmer in Co Mayo has won the right to be buried on his own land.

An environmental group has secured leave to appeal against the rejection of its challenge to a grant of permission for a wind farm in Co Laois.