Dolphin Rugby Club has clashed with the IRFU over plans for a large, new, indoor facility at the city’s main rugby stadium.

Cork County Council members are questioning the cost of a new design for the proposed Cork-Limerick motorway and the likely delay in securing planning, again, for the M20 route.

A legal challenge against the granting of planning permission to a proposed controversial €160m incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour opened in the High Court today.

A High Court review of a challenge by environmental lobby group CHASE to An Bord Pleanála's decision to grant planning permission for an incinerator in Cork Harbour is set to get underway tomorrow.

A new energy strategy for Kerry will see whole swathes of the county earmarked for windfarms — but not in top scenic areas.

A head of steam has built up against the country’s first large “type-three” single carriageway between Dingle and Tralee in Co Kerry.

Residents fighting GAA plans they claim will split a huge public park due to be developed in Cork will voice their concerns this evening with the designers behind the multimillion-euro park project.

Nama has appointed a statutory receiver to assets belonging to Limerick-based property companies controlled by developers Joe Hanrahan and John Shee.

THE upland countryside where the counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick meet continues to be a place where rare and threatened species of wildlife can still be found.

There will be significant reform of the planning system despite a Department of Environment review finding no criminality or corruption across seven local authorities.

The campaign to save a residential green in the western suburbs of Cork from development is going to the Supreme Court.

The finances of the Health Service Executive are to come under fresh scrutiny as it has already overspent its budget by €145m in the first quarter of 2012.

A Kerry soccer club has to switch off floodlights at its grounds at 10pm each night, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

A disused factory site earmarked for a supermarket and a restaurant has been set ablaze for the fourth time in almost eight months.

FOR the next 10 years sheep will graze on land that was by now supposed to be the imminent home for a new Silicon Valley-style industrial campus.

A second attempt to change the city development plan to facilitate a development at a business park in Cork City has been shot down.

Plans to locate the proposed national children’s hospital at the Mater site in Dublin city centre could be resurrected after management at three hospitals in the area said they were puttingtogether a fresh proposal.

An Bord Pleanála should be allowed review local authority development plans and even veto council decisions on land rezoning, the country’s planning association has said.

HSE chiefs in the South of the country may have to consider building an emergency hospital on the outskirts of Cork City, according to one of Cork University Hospital’s (CUH) leading doctors.

Endemic corruption, chaotic sprawl, a legacy of ghost development and widespread environmental degradation — they are just some of the phrases used by An Taisce in its review of planning during the boom years.