A GROUP awaiting a Bord Pleanála ruling on a controversial super-quarry is poised to launch an EU campaign to halt quarrying in their area.

IN the run-up to the general election it’s perhaps timely to consider the appalling lack of respect for our heritage which has been continually displayed by the Government, in particular since 2002 when Martin Cullen and his successor Dick Roche held the Environment portfolio.

PLANS for one of Ireland’s largest retirement villages have been overturned.

PEOPLE living in one of Kerry’s most popular seaside areas have lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála against a major caravan park.

CORK’S city councillors want to meet the board of CIÉ to thrash out issues surrounding the crucial, but stalled, development of a key city docklands site.

MULTI-MILLION euro plans for a massive residential and commercial development in Cork’s docklands, which include a landmark 10-storey tower, were finally given the green light by An Bord Pleanála yesterday.

DOZENS of protesters were dressed as Father Christmas yesterday for a march against plans for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

I WAS disappointed to read the one-sided and somewhat inaccurate letter from historian Dr Colmán Etchingham (Irish Examiner letters, November 18).

ROGER COTTRELL’S views (Irish Examiner letters, November 24) on American neocons, the vested interests of oil multinationals and end-time thinking are vehemently expressed.

A PUBLIC fixation linking the late Charles J Haughey to the former Baldoyle Racecourse wrecked a developer’s ambition to build houses there, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

A QUARRY company will close with the loss of almost 300 jobs if it cannot develop a site in east Cork.

AN BÓRD Pleanála has enough evidence to confirm a contentious compulsory purchase order (CPO) on 10 hectares of prime land in Cork’s docklands, a local authority said yesterday.

FORMER Fine Gael councillor Jim Fay alleged at the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday he had to put £5,000 cash in an envelope for an official in An Bord Pleanála to get planning permission.

THE owner of a holiday park pond in which a two-year-old baby drowned last summer has secured council backing for a fresh bid to have it filled in.

PLANNING permission was granted yesterday by Cork County Council for a 204-house development in Crosshaven, while an application was received for an equally large development in Castlemartyr.

AN BÓRD Pleanála was under fire last night for overruling a local authority and giving the green light for a mobile phone mast close to a Traveller halting site and a crèche.

IT’S all about place, Maura Harrington says. Protect a place and it will protect its people.

IT is time Noel Dempsey and friends were called to task over their cynical posturing as impartial observers in the Corrib gas dispute.

CORK’S sprawling docklands area is on the fast track to a multi-billion euro transformation after it was cleared for vital tax breaks by Europe yesterday.

TALKS are at an advanced stage for the development of a third new private hospital in Limerick.