Applications for licences to explore for gas using controversial fracking methods are unlikely to be considered for another two years, at least.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has defended the appointment of a pro-fracking company to lead a research study into the practice in Ireland.

A former bookshop in Cork City centre has permission to be changed to a cafe/restaurant, following a recent planning decision.

A multimillion bid to safeguard the future of one of the country’s busiest ports is due to be lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

The Dublin offices of international legal firm Maples and Calder have put on hold plans by Irish Life to construct a €20m six-storey office block on a landmark St Stephen’s Green site.

A new education/arts use is being pencilled in for a high profile Cork city centre building by the proposed events centre/Brewery Quarter, which is being sold for well over €1 million.

The resurrected plan to build a new town with 5,800 houses on the northern outskirts of Cork City will go to An Bord Pleanála again after a number of groups and individuals objected to it.

The Dalata Group has secured planning permission for a €36m plan to transform its Clayton Hotel Dublin Airport into one of the largest in the country.

Plans for a development of more than 30 new homes in the southside suburbs of Cork have been lodged.

Indaver is to apply once more to impose incineration on the residents of Cork Harbour. 

Two appeals to An Bord Pleanála will delay the start of the €50m regeneration of the derelict former Capitol cinema site in Cork City by at least four months.

Shell Ireland has officially applied to the Government for permission to operate the controversial pipeline from the Corrib gas field off the coast of Mayo.

The Port of Waterford has dropped plans to seek a judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant planning for the Port of Cork’s €100 million expansion at Ringaskiddy.

Intel Ireland has requested An Bord Pleanála to invoke rarely used powers to dismiss what the company claims is the "vexatious" appeal by farmer Thomas Reid against its planned $4bn (€3.6bn) investment in Kildare.

Residents in the east Cork townland of East Ferry, near Midleton have expressed concerns that Dairygold built 14 km of pipeline to carry treated effluent from a cheese processing plant to their local harbour prior to obtaining an EPA licence to discharge it.

The Guinness Enterprise Centre has lost out in its battle against Dublin City Council’s decision to slap a €280,000 planning contribution charge on its €10m expansion plan.

Two HSE public health doctors have written to An Bord Pleanála calling on it to refuse planning permission for a drive-thru fast food restaurant in Skerries in north Dublin

Cork City’s 17-storey Elysian apartment building may be about to get a neighbouring tower, with planning permission set to be lodged this week for an apartment development of 118 units 200m away.

A proposed new tourist facility on an island off the Cork coast has been likened to a “space station” by one of two environmental groups opposed to the project.

Fast track planning permission is being sought this week for a 17-storey apartment tower, on Cork city’s South Link Road, on a compact site previously a rail track goods yard and sidings.