The developers of one of Cork’s largest docklands projects has secured its first tenant - with more announcements in the pipeline.

An Bord Pleanála has said it will continue to prioritise large-scale housing appeals after its latest annual report showed it granted permission for more than 7,100 housing units and almost 4,500 student bed-spaces during 2018.

The Ardee Point student accommodation scheme is to be operated by “luxury high end” UK-based student accommodation operator, NIDO Student.

A landmark Irish hotel is set for a two-storey extension after permission to build was granted by the State planning agency.

An Bord Pleanála has turned down an appeal by the minister against a decision of Kildare County Council to refuse her department planning permission for a proposal to allow turf cutting at Coolree Bog near Prosperous, Co Kildare.

An Bord Pleanala is considering plans for 700 new build-to-rent apartments on Dublin's southside.

Construction has started on fewer than half of the large-scale housing and apartment schemes approved under the Government’s fast-track planning scheme.

A primary school has brought a High Court challenge to planning permission for Ireland's first supervised heroin injection facility.

The students and teachers of Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn are delighted to be finally moving into their very first bricks and mortar school, after spending more than two decades in prefabs in an overflow carpark of Brian Dillons GAA club, writes Jess Casey.

Strict security arrangements, including access cards, CCTV and visiting restrictions, are part of the management plan for a new student apartment complex proposed for Limerick city.

A large new development on an industrial estate at Little Island in Cork is being challenged by Fianna Fáil TD, Pádraig O'Sullivan amid claims it will disturb local residents in terms of noise and traffic as well as posing an environmental risk.

A planned upgrade to the country's only cable car service looks set to go ahead after objectors to the proposal withdrew their concerns at an oral hearing.

A coalition of business leaders, hoteliers, publicans and restaurateurs in Cork say their focus remains on doing everything possible to ensure the delivery of the Cork event centre as it faces yet about obstacle.

Quinlan’s Seafood Bar is seeking to expand into number 55 Oliver Plunkett Street.

The Kerry-based hotel group behind the last-minute legal challenge to the €50m state-funding package for Cork's event centre has been accused of lodging a “nasty, vexatious, commercial ambush” on the stalled project.

Mr Thomas Reid is seeking to legally challenge a decision by An Bord Pleanála made last November to grant the computer chip manufacturing giant planning permission to expand its manufacturing facility at Collinstown, in Leixlip.

The council has refused planning permission to an application by the owners of the proposed new facility at the corner of Harcourt Street and Montague Street for lifting a condition which restricts its opening hours to

Planning permission has been granted for the development of an apartment complex on the site of a well-known former pub in Cork city, despite objections from a number of local residents including a city councillor.

It is the first time Cork City Council will have issued such fines, which are designed to motivate the development of vacant sites and to reduce land hoarding.

Dublin City Council has told a company owned by developer, Johnny Ronan, to keep the noise down in its planned new ‘live-work’ venture at Mr Ronan’s luxury Embassy House in Dublin 4.