BUSINESSMAN Jim Mansfield has started a fresh legal action to overturn a decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse him planning permission for a controversial conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex in Dublin.

I REFER to An Taisce’s recent ‘unreserved’ apology to journalist Fintan O’Toole for describing his plan for his holiday home in Co Clare as ‘criminal’ and an ‘infection’ on the landscape.

THE green light has been given for an extra 50 local authority houses in Killarney, which will go some way towards reducing a waiting list of more than 400 housing applicants.

DUFFY MITCHELL O’DONOGHUE (DMOD), have secured a planning permission for the redevelopment of Stillorgan Shopping Centre in Dublin, on behalf of their client Treasury Holdings.

A MASSIVE temporary car park which will service people travelling to and from the Ryder Cup has been given planning permission despite objections from locals who fear it will lead to increased traffic volumes and who argue a more suitable site might have been found.

PARENTS of pupils at a Waterford primary school say they’re going to appeal a decision by the local council to grant retention for a mobile phone mast located within 180 metres from the junior infants’ classroom.

THE general manager of a windfarm project on the Cork/Kerry border yesterday said he was confident that problems with TV reception in the area had been rectified.

THE livelihoods of inshore fishermen will be wiped out if the Port of Cork builds a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

IT HAS emerged that Cork is to the forefront of an EU drive to create “Motorways of the Seas”, with the aim of reducing pollution and container transport costs.

PLANS to develop a €226m container terminal in Cork Harbour will not damage its sailing pursuits or property prices, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

THE taxpayer will foot a €1 million-plus bill to clean up a 30-year-old asbestos dump in Cork harbour.

A BORD Pleanála oral hearing was yesterday told that the Oyster Bank at Ringaskiddy was the most suitable of three sites examined for the Port of Cork’s proposed new €226 million container and cargo terminal.

THE Port of Cork yesterday rubbished a rival port’s objection to its plans to build a €226 million container and cargo terminal at Ringaskiddy in Co Cork.

AN BORD Pleanála will open an oral hearing this morning about plans by the Port of Cork to build a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour.

EFFORTS to secure the rezoning of one of Cork’s great rugby grounds for development have kicked off.

DESPITE concerns about inadequate roads, water and sewerage services in one of Kerry’s fastest developing villages, An Bord Pleanála has given the all-clear for another housing estate.

A DECISION by An Bórd Pleanála to grant planning permission for a new school on land zoned for sport is final, Cork city councillors will be told tonight.

A CAMPAIGN to breathe new life into Tralee town centre has been boosted by a decision to grant planning permission for a 900-square metre extension to a shopping centre.

THE livelihoods of inshore fishermen will be wiped out if the Port of Cork builds a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

A LONG-RUNNING plan by the Government to buy the Great Blasket island has run into difficulties yet again.