THE EPA seems almost certain to grant a license to the proposed incinerator at Ringaskiddy on the basis of An Bord Pleanála’s decision.

THE inability of two senior heritage officials to attend and give evidence to the Oireachtas Environment Committee hearing on the proposed M3 (Clonee-to-Kells) motorway is of serious concern on two levels.

RINGASKIDDY is not a backyard, it is a gateway. And it is no ordinary gateway because it opens onto the ocean.

AT the start of George Orwell’s magnificent novel 1984, its anti-hero Winston Smith hears the loudspeakers drone that Oceania is at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.

OBJECTORS are expected to take their fight against a €14.5 million water scheme to the courts after Bord Pleanála granted Cork County Council a conditional order to proceed with the project.

BUCK-PASSING is the name of the game as flood waters continue to ravage Irish cities and towns.

CURBS are to be imposed by Killarney Town Council on the building of offices and apartments in housing estates.

AN BORD Pleanála has been heavily criticised for refusing planning permission for a €25 million five-star hotel in Kinsale.

IT would seem that “archaeological significance” carries a different meaning in different areas of this little island.

ADDITIONAL State- owned land around the country is to be made available for affordable housing, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirmed yesterday.

A €45 million hospital and radiotherapy development for Waterford has been given the green light by planners clearing the way for work to begin next month.

A REDEVELOPED stately home could deal with up to 10,000 visitors a week, a Bord Pleanála oral hearing was told yesterday.

EUROPE’S biggest on-shore wind energy farm will soon be built in Co Mayo.

THE High Court has ruled against the challenge brought by objectors to works on the M50 motorway on the site of Carrickmines Castle.

WHAT have Maud Gonne, WB Yeats and the M3 motorway got in common? The answer lies deep within the hill of Tara, Ireland’s most revered archaeological site and the subject of a campaign to preserve this sacred place from the juggernaut of progress.

THE Government drive to encourage women to breastfeed could be jeopardised if the Indaver Ireland proposal for a hazardous waste incinerator goes ahead in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

A GROUP of residents in West Cork has vowed to take their fight against a €14m reservoir all the way to the European Court if An Bord Pleanála doesn’t turn it down.

AN TAISCE has put the brakes on a high priority €12m water supply scheme in West Cork.

PLANS to build a highway linking Limerick city to Nenagh have advanced, with Limerick County Council publishing compulsory purchase orders (CPO) to buy land for the route.