THE Environmental Protection Agency has granted a licence for the country's first toxic waste incinerator, despite vehement opposition from environmental groups.

A SECTION of new dual carriageway linking Waterford and Dublin has been given the green light, despite a report which clearly says permission for the route should be refused.

RYANAIR boss Michael O’Leary has applied to build and operate a €150 million terminal at Dublin Airport.

GAS production from the Corrib field will be delayed for around the year following the decision by project leaders Enterprise Energy to postpone the laying of the offshore pipeline because of planning issues.

OBJECTORS to Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator have vowed to take their battle to the European Court if planning permission is granted for the project.

PLANS to build a multi-million euro golf course at Inch, on the Dingle Peninsula, have received a further setback, with Environment Minister Dick Roche refusing to give the project the green light.

PLANS for a controversial incinerator in Tipperary took a step further yesterday when the company involved applied for an Environmental Protection Agency licence.

IT would seem that an Bord Pleanála values the lives of horses and birds more that those of human beings.

THE Irish Examiner of June 7 devoted approximately three column inches to a High Court decision to uphold a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a wind farm within five miles of Gougane Barra National Forest Park.

A PLAN to develop a halfway house for recovering alcoholics have been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

MICHAEL FLATLEY has been invited to talks with a county manager about his €30 million refurbishment of a stately home, amid fears he could drop the project after having some of the work turned down.

I REFER to the story headlined ‘Lack of mobile phone coverage in valley is putting lives at risk’ (Irish Examiner, April 19).

TDs across the political spectrum last night gave a broad welcome to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to refuse Roadstone Dublin Ltd a licence for a landfill site on its land in Blessington, Co Wicklow.

PLANNING permission is being sought for a second wind-farm in a controversial area earmarked for the conservation of the endangered hen harrier, it emerged yesterday.

DICK Roche’s plan for a special division of An Bord Pleanála to speed up approvals for major infrastructure is an unwarranted attack on the legitimate rights of people to oppose large projects.

PLANS to allow thousands of one-off houses to be built in the countryside will lead to major water pollution unless millions of euro are pumped into new schemes, An Taisce warned yesterday.

CORK County Council has given the green light to a €400 million redevelopment of Ballincollig, the biggest planning permission ever granted by the local authority.

THE decision-making process in relation to the proposed waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy is a travesty of democracy.

IN 1900 the cancer rate was one in 80. Today the figure is an alarming one in three.