THE saga surrounding the building of golf links in sensitive dune and coastal areas continues, amid concerns about damage to a fragile environment and wildlife habitat.

CORK County Council has granted permission for a 96-berth marina in Kinsale and a controversial quarry in Carrigtwohill. However, objections have been made to An Board Pleanála about hundreds of houses earmarked for Bandon.

A HUGE shopping development which was given the go-ahead yesterday by An Bord Pleanála will create more than 1,000 permanent jobs in Limerick.

THERE is great concern at the way new bypass roads and motorways are being introduced. The system is dividing communities and parishes and is turning them against each other.

THE GAA has refused to give in to a demand to supply Croke Park area residents with 1,600 free tickets for each of three concerts to be held in the stadium this summer along with the six rugby and soccer internationals due to be staged in 2007.

FRESH new house designs, but a return to an architectural feature from the past, the stair return, distinguish the new homes launched this weekend in The Beeches, Woodville, a mile from the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork.

A RADICAL approach by Limerick County Council to reduce one-off housing in rural areas has received a major set back on its first test.

THE Moriarty Tribunal yesterday gave details of its latest probe into possible links between former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey and the private sale of State lands in Wicklow to the Roadstone company.

Donal Óg Cusack has abandoned his current plans to build his dream home out on the outskirts of his homeplace in Cork writes Gordan Deegan.

ESB and Coillte are pleased to announce that funding has been secured for the Castlepook Wind Farm project in Co Cork.

Apple has been granted planning permission for its major Hollyhill expansion proposal, clearing the way for the creation of 1,000 extra jobs, writes Gordon Deegan.

The iconic Panti Bliss sign has been given a new lease of life thanks to an appeal by the bar-owner Panti Bliss.

Ireland's first Center Parcs holiday resort has been given final approval by planners.

Center Parcs' plan to build a holiday village in Co. Longford has got approval from An Bord Pleanála.

The High Court has been asked to review the decision to grant Apple permission to build an €850m data centre in Galway.

Latest: An expert witness for Indaver Ireland has said Ringaskiddy and not Bottlehill is the appropriate site for an incinerator, writes Catherine Shanahan of the Irish Examiner.

Latest: Archaeologist Avril Purcell said there were no recorded monuments listed in the Record of Monuments and Places within the proposed development site for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, writes Catherine Shanahan.

There was a 9% increase in the number of planning applications An Bord Pleanála received last year.

Bord na Mona workers who fear they may lose their jobs want an urgent meeting with the Environment Minister, Denis Naughten.

Another autumn of discontent awaits college students as the scramble for scarcer and dearer accommodation is tougher than in any of the last 10 years writes Niall Murray.