CUT-PRICE designer brands will continue to be stocked on Irish shelves despite a court decision not to allow Tesco in Britain to sell Levi jeans imported from outside Europe.

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.

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.

OVER three-quarters of the planning permissions for one-off houses granted by local authorities were overturned following objections to An Bord Pleanála, their latest annual report has revealed.

THE controversial Corrib gas pipeline was promised a fast-track path through the planning process, documents reveal.

GAA president, Sean Kelly has welcomed An Bord Pleanala’s decision to grant planning permission for a new 232 bedroom hotel on Jones’ Road, opposite Croke Park.

TOP officials from the GAA and members of a local club whose grounds are under threat will make presentations to an oral hearing which begins today.

MORE than 100 objections are expected to be lodged with Bord Pleanála against the new Waterford to Kilcullen dual carriageway.

CORK County Manager Maurice Moloney maintained yesterday that a €200 million O’Flynn Construction project at Dunkettle could not be completed until road improvements are carried out in the area.

THE GAELIC Players Association has reacted angrily to “underhand” moves by GAA chiefs to lure players into a new official players’ body.

A €100 MILLION business and retail park in Cork has been given the go-ahead, subject to conditions, by An Bord Pleanála.

RESIDENTS in West Waterford say they will take whatever legal steps necessary to prevent a waste management company developing a plant in their area.

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.