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.

FEATHERS are being ruffled in one of Limerick’s most fashionable addresses over birds of prey.

A PLANNING application for about 100 houses in Killorglin, Co Kerry, has been refused by An Bord Pleanála.

STUDENTS whose hopes of a move to a new school building were shattered when councillors refused to rezone the site last summer were celebrating yesterday after the decision was overturned.

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.

HARBOUR residents are facing huge legal bills in a David versus Goliath planning battle with the port of Cork.

AS shocking as was the picture painted in your front-page story (‘63 days: 63 lives lost’, March 3), it had special resonance for people living in the aptly named Blind Gate side of Kinsale in Co Cork.

A CALL for a crackdown on illegal quarrying in Kerry was made yesterday, after it emerged six further quarries operating without permission had come to the county council’s attention.

HOME furnishings retailer IKEA will launch the first phase of its recruitment campaign for its Dublin store at the end of March with the announcement of more than 40 management positions.

WHAT you see won’t necessarily be what you get, with a couple of Cork bungalows up for sale in prized locations.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a €250 million co-location hospital in Cork were approved last night.

A PLANNING decision on a multi-million-euro revamp of one of Dublin city centre’s busy shopping areas has been delayed.