IN your report headlined ‘Department warns An Bord Pleanála of risks from harbour incinerators’ (February 25), you quote the developer Indaver as saying “the incinerators are ‘must-have’ for this country if we want to avoid hefty EU levies for sending too much waste to landfill.”

INDAVER has been accused of trying to muscle-in on Cork County Council’s waste disposal business.

CORK County Council is to urge An Bord Pleanála to reject Indaver’s plans to build incinerators in Ringaskiddy capable of burning 300,000 tonnes per annum of municipal and hazardous waste.

RESIDENTS of an historic west Kerry village have vowed to continue their campaign against an Eircom mast after an Bord Pleanála overruled its own inspector to give the project the green light.

A €100 MILLION shopping centre which had the backing of several thousand people in the north Cork area has been refused.

DUBLIN City Council has been accused of flouting its own planning regulations by allowing work to begin on a major shopping centre within metres of a national monument linked to the 1916 Rising.

THE ambitious €1 billion Atlantic Quarter project in Cork’s docklands got the green light from planners last night.

AN oral hearing is to be held by An Bord Pleanála next month into the controversial €54m incinerators planned for Cork Harbour.

AMBITIOUS but scaled-down plans to redevelop Cork’s landmark Capitol Cinema site have been given the green light.

CORK county manager Martin Riordan has described last Monday’s protest sit-in at County Hall as “disgraceful and unnecessary”.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to co-locate public and private hospitals at six sites around the country are not likely to be affected by budget changes to capital allowance schemes.

OVER a dozen planned public transport projects have been postponed as a result of cutbacks totalling more than €500 million introduced by the Government since last October’s budget.

THE taxpayer could be facing a e4 million legal bill because of a standoff between two state bodies in Cork over land.

MUNSTER Branch officials hope Cork City Council reconsider a decision to vote against the rezoning of lands inside Musgrave Park, the sale of which was to assist in the redevelopment of a new stadium.

A NEW €2 million city centre market, which will open in Limerick within a year, will be on a scale not seen in this country before, it was predicted yesterday.

DUBLIN’S metro system could be fully operational by 2015 if planning permission for the e5 billion project is granted this year.

I WOULD like to appeal to An Bord Pleanála, the EPA, the State and Indaver to forgo any temptation to seek costs from the concerned Cork citizens and their organisations who have so valiantly worked to protect their environment from an incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

UP TO 1,200 jobs for Waterford have been promised by the backers of a huge urban development, which was yesterday given permission by An Bord Pleanála.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for the country’s first toxic waste incinerator have pleaded with the Government not to pursue them for substantial legal costs following what they called a “devastating” court ruling.

AN Bord Pleanála has deferred until January 30 a decision on a massive €250 million shopping development for Tralee.