ONE of the country’s busiest ports will lodge a planning application today for a €190 million container terminal in Cork harbour.

IT MAY seem ironic, but developers of golf links in sensitive coastal areas are hoping Environment Minister John Gormley will listen more favourably to their case than Fianna Fáil ministers have in recent years.

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 CHERISHED city green has been saved from development.

AN ORAL hearing into a proposed animal rendering plant in Tipperary which would be located close to a world-famous, horse-training establishment will get under way next Tuesday.

DUBLIN AIRPORT is to get busier after An Bord Pleanála granted permission for the main passenger terminal to be expanded.

RESIDENTS living close to the site of a proposed bio-energy plant in south Tipperary yesterday voiced concerns about the development of a large-scale plant dealing with animal by-products in their locality.

RACEHORSE trainer Aidan O’Brien has rejected claims from the promoters of a proposed animal byproducts plant that his horses weren’t affected by emissions from a former rendering plant in the vicinity.

A LEADING economist has warned that “uncertainty” over the possible development of an animal byproducts processing plant in south Tipperary could prompt racehorse owners to move their horses away from the Coolmore-owned Ballydoyle facility.

CAMPAIGNERS against an incinerator which will turn waste into electricity for 50,000 Dublin homes are taking their fight to the High Court.

COOLMORE yesterday launched a blistering attack on a proposed animal byproducts treatment plant, which would be located 3km from its Ballydoyle training facility, describing it as “the wrong use in the wrong location”.

CHAMPION trainer Aidan O’Brien has warned that the development of an animal waste plant close to his base in south Tipperary would mean the “end of Ballydoyle” as a world-class training facility.

THE development of a animal byproducts and bio-energy plant in south Tipperary is “in the national interest”, promoters of the proposed facility said yesterday.

AN BORD PLEANÁLA is to hold an oral hearing next month into plans by the Port of Cork to build a €226 million cargo terminal at Ringaskiddy.

A KERRY County Council decision to turn down a planning application for a shopping development in Castleisland could cost the town 90 jobs, it was claimed yesterday.