Plans by one of Munster’s leading hotel groups to break into the Dublin market have suffered a major setback after its proposal for a €50m new five-star facility was rejected.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission to Trump Doonbeg’s contentious plans for coastal protection plans at the west Clare course.

An Bord Pleanála has reversed Cork County Council decision to grant planning permission for 55 new houses in Glounthaune .

The number of houses granted planning permission in 2019 fell for the first time in seven years, as the number of apartments granted permission rose sharply, according to new CSO figures.

Politics, just like nature, abhors a vacuum. The power void left by February’s general election has been instantly filled by the looming horror and scale of the coronavirus health crisis.

A controversial visitor centre, planned for the Dublin Mountains, will not have an adverse impact on protected wildlife and habitats.

The promoters of a controversial new visitor centre proposed for the Dublin Mountain have claimed it will have no adverse impact on protected wildlife and habitats in the area.

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has won a planning contribution row, saving it nearly €335,000 in costs, with Dublin City Council regarding the university’s planned new €60m E3 Foundry facility.

Plans for a €12.5m development of a large new school building by Christian Brothers College in Cork has to be put on hold as two objections to the facility have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

The High Court has overturned, on consent, An Bord Pleanála's permission for increased height of two blocks of apartments in a development of 500 apartments/co-living spaces in the north Dublin docklands.

The planned €1bn motorway linking Cork and Limerick will run mainly along the current N20 corridor via Charleville and Mallow, it has been confirmed.

Developers seeking 'fast track' planning permissions from An Bord Pleanála have suffered a triple blow.

The appeals board has given Pat Crean’s Marlet Group the green light in spite of strong local opposition against the plan.

Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has dismissed a “lazy assumption” that the Government is “ideologically opposed to social and affordable housing”.

Irish Water has defended its record in handling wastewater in the face of stinging criticism from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

An Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a €500 million sewage treatment plant in Dublin.

An oral hearing into the controversial South Kerry Greenway is expected to take almost two weeks.

Measures to protect the Kerry Slug, a protected species, have been outlined at the An Bord Pleanála oral hearing into the Kerry Greenway.

Waterford have been refused permission to play their 2020 Munster SHC home games at a Leinster venue, in the event of Walsh Park being unavailable.

Kerry County Council has begun to outline its application for a greenway cycle and walkway through small farms and towns along the old railway line skirting the N70 Ring of Kerry in south Kerry, which was announced in 2014, but which has still to be constructed.