The Government is reportedly due to publish planned new legislation today aimed at fast-tracking major infrastructure projects.

A waste management company is to lodge a new planning application seeking to increase the size of a controversial incineration plant being built in Co Meath, it emerged today.

An Bord Pleanala is to be restructured in a bid to deliver major infrastructure decisions more quickly, the Government said today.

An Bord Pleanala has upheld an appeal against a €25m superdump planned for the Meath-Kildare border.

An environmentalist who lost his court challenge to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today had legal costs of up to €600,000 awarded against him.

The €70m revamp of Páirc Uí Chaoimh was today given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála.

An Bord Pleanála is to reconsider applications for two wind farm developments in Co Roscommon.

Dubin Port has seen an increase in imports and exports of 7.3% in the first nine months of the year.

Rural residents opposed to wind farms are planning to protest this morning outside a meeting of the Irish Wind Energy Association in Kilkenny.

Anti-wind-turbine protestors said today that the Government’s energy policy is flawed, and are calling for a re-think.

A PLANNING objection by a Cork solicitor and his wife could delay a kidney dialysis unit in Limerick by up to a year, the company behind the development said yesterday.

LOCAL businessman, Eddie Barrett, yesterday called on everyone to “pull together” in the wake of Kerry County Council’s decision not to grant full planning permission for a new development at Ballybeggan Park in Tralee.

PLANS for a multi-million-euro hotel and commercial centre have been turned down by An Bord Pleanála — as the project would have blocked views of the Rock of Cashel.

BUSINESSES in the southern region stand to lose hundreds of millions of euro if there is any long delay in opening the Port of Cork’s proposed container terminal in Ringaskiddy, it was warned yesterday.

THE Port of Cork has suffered a setback to its plans to open a €226 million container terminal at Ringaskiddy in 2011.

A PROPOSED waste incinerator will pose a further threat to the health of residents of the Ringsend area of Dublin in a suburb that had already suffered considerable pollution, an oral hearing of the Environmental Protection Agency was told yesterday.

A NEW €226 million container terminal in Co Cork could affect the economic viability of ports in Waterford and Dublin, and result in traffic gridlock and more deaths on the roads.

A HUGE row has broken out between the commercial manager of the Port of Cork and RTÉ’s marine correspondent over proposals to develop a €232 million container port at Ringaskiddy.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has been criticised for agreeing reluctantly to a “fleeting” appearance before an oral hearing into plans for a €226 million container terminal in Cork Harbour.

AN BORD PLEANÁLA has ruled that a property developer needs planning permission to land a helicopter on land near his home.