THE promoter behind a planned €200 million wind farm in west Clare yesterday warned it will not proceed unless there is was an overhaul of the grid connection system.

ANTI-PYLON protesters have expressed hope that an international commission, which is to examine the controversial North-South electricity commentator, will recommend that power lines for the project be placed underground.

THE board tasked with developing the new national children’s hospital has slashed by almost 50% the amount it is hoping to raise in charitable donations towards the estimated €650 million cost of the project.

A NUMBER of GPs in Killarney, along with a development company, have been forced to seek planning retention for the use of a building they moved into as a new medical centre last year.

BUSINESS and tourism interests have warned of a “negative impact” for an east Cork town where planning was granted for a sludge treatment plant.

A SCHOOL at the centre of bitter controversy over plans for a new building has invited public representatives to an open day today to hear its side of the story.

ONE of Shell’s partners in the €2.5 billion Corrib Gas project has conceded that gas will not now be brought ashore until 2014.

HERITAGE campaigners have told An Bord Pleanála they fear an historic city landmark will become nothing more than a “curiosity” if a €150 million events centre goes ahead on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

NOTHING stands still: not time, not the ground we stand on, and certainly not a city.

A CORK city councillor has claimed that sectional interests were put ahead of the public interest in previous decisions relating to a planning application for a gaelscoil on the city’s northside.

THE GAA has been accused of trying to turn Croke Park into “an adventure sports park” after the sports organisation submitted plans which would allow visitors to engage in abseiling and ziplining off the roof of the stadium.

THE developers of a proposed €10 million wind farm in west Clare have appealed Clare Co Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for the development.

AN appeal against Cork City Council’s refusal of planning for a new home for one of the country’s oldest multi-denominational gaelscoileanna is expected to be lodged within days.

FEELINGS are running high in west Clare over the proposed construction of a €10 million wind farm, amid claims posters opposing the development have been taken down.

This modern homestead enhances a slice of pastoral paradise, by blending into the landscape. Tommy Barker reports

A LOCAL authority yesterday refused planning permission for a contentious 400ft high wind farm due to its likely impact on a protected and rare bird, the Hen Harrier.

THE development of the new National Children’s Hospital, due to open in 2016, will not be contingent on charitable donations, Health Minister Dr James Reilly said yesterday.

Land giveaways are rare in Ireland. Oliver Moore reports on the thinking behind octogenarian David Rowe’s decision to donate his entire five-acre holding in Co Carlow to a land trust.

THE HSE South has been refused planning permission to remove a large Christian statue from above the main entrance of the Killarney Community Hospital, which it took down and then replaced at ground level.

PROMOTERS of the proposed super-casino in Tipperary have vowed to press ahead with their plans despite the Government yesterday ruling out legislation allowing so-called large resort-style casinos.