Enforcement proceedings against Barnafaddock Wind Farm raise serious questions around planning, the law and national policy on wind energy, writes Michael Clifford

The Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) has stalled contentious plans for a drive thru fast food restaurant in Skerries in north Dublin.

The owners of a large childcare facility near Killarney’s town centre have clashed with local residents over their plans for an expansion of the facility.

The building firm seeking to construct an apartment block and house plan on lands adjacent to broadcaster, Pat Kenny’s home has offered to reduce the scale of the development.

A significant upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange was first announced in 2011. Cost overruns to the €100m project, revealed by this paper last week, could seeit delayed by up to 18 months, which would mean the entire process will have taken more than a decade. Joe Leogue looks back at the long-awaited plan.

Ireland has been found to have breached its international obligations over to access to information on the environment.

Ireland has been found to be in breach of its international obligations in relation to access to information on the environment.

Two High Court challenges against a Bord Pleanala decision to grant planning permission for a wind farm which will have some of the highest structures in the country have been admitted to the fast track Commercial Court list.

Planning permission has been granted for a controversial energy plant in Co Roscommon.

Any delays to the €100m upgrade of the Dunkettle interchange will have “disastrous consequences” for Cork’s growth and have knock-on effects for key infrastructural and housing projects.

A Dublin-based renewable energy company is seeking a foreshore licence to assess the suitability of two offshore wind farm sites in Irish waters.

A bingo operator has secured permission to operate out of a new premises in Ballyvolane despite objections by two leading sports clubs in Cork city.

Pupils due to attend a new primary school near Togher in Cork in September are facing uncertainty after An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission for a temporary site for the facility.

An application for up to 3,500 homes in Ringsend in Dublin has been lodged with An Bord Pleanala.

There are plans for almost 600 homes in the Dundalk area of Co. Louth.

Supermac’s owner, Pat McDonagh, has secured planning permission for a new €10m motorway services plaza on the M7 near Portlaoise, despite claims it will lead to the creation of two rival operations within 150 metres of each other.

A rare species of bat, as well as the soprano pipistrelle bat, may hold up development of the €180m Project Opera development in Limerick.

Cork’s skyline is set to reach new heights with the country’s tallest building planned for the city’s docklands.

A 25-storey apartment tower is proposed for a Cork city centre site on Albert Quay.

The Mount Juliet Estates Residents Group in Kilkenny claims the removal of a putting course modelled as a mini-Augusta in Georgia, USA, should not have taken place without planning permission being obtained first.