THE operator of a Kerry waste recycling facility, which does not have planning permission, was yesterday given 15 months to halt all work at the site.

THE Green Party in Waterford has accused Iarnród Éireann of abandoning a transport plan for the city by pressing ahead with a proposal to upgrade the existing railway station.

CORK County Council has issued a warning letter to a wealthy businessman who travels from his home by helicopter about an alleged unauthorised hangar-like building on his land.

IT seemed like an impossible dream for many years but Cork School of Music is ready to open the doors to a new €60 million future.

AN anti-incinerator lobby group has sought clarification from An Bord Pleanála on whether the company seeking to build an incinerator in Cork has met with the planning board in advance of its decision on the project, due soon.

A CITY has agreed to pay €10 million in compensation to the Munster Agricultural Society (MAS) to acquire its historic Showgrounds home in Cork.

THE mayor of Limerick city has called for new regulations concerning objections that are lodged with An Bord Pleanála to developments approved by a local authority.

YESTERDAY as he firmly gripped the hand of his father as they walked through the streets of Dublin, curiosity got the better of a little boy who looked no more than seven-years-old.

ISN’T it interesting to note that while your headline (November 21) proclaims the devastation wreaked on Cork by a “one-in-800 year flood”, An Bord Pleanála is considering the merits or otherwise of granting permission to construct two incinerators, one to burn hazardous waste and the other to burn non-hazardous waste, beside the shores of Cork harbour on a site prone to flooding on the basis of water levels reached in a one-in-100 year flood.

EVERY farmer knows if you dig a drain you first have for figure out where the water is going to flow.

BROADBAND internet services are expected to be available in all of Kerry before the end of this year, despite ongoing objections to masts by local communities.

MORE than €8,500 a day has been spent on overtime and expenses for gardaí policing the Corrib gas project in Mayo since protests began there than five years ago.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has predicted Tipperary is set for a “major jobs boost” after an 11,000 square metre shopping centre was opened in the county, potentially creating 500 new positions.

PLANS for a €80 million 100-bed private hospital in Cork have been shot down.

IT has emerged that it could now take years before a railway station is built in Dunkettle, on the eastern side of Cork city.

PLANS for a new gaelscoil which have split a community on Cork’s northside have been hit with another planning difficulty.

A RECEIVER has been appointed to one of Limerick’s largest property companies, the Fordmount Property Group, and its two subsidiaries, which cumulatively has net liabilities in excess of €200 million.

PLANS for a long-awaited, €1.5 million development by Killarney Rugby Club have been turned down by Kerry County Council, but an appeal may be lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

A HOTEL redevelopment and extension has been given the go-ahead at one of the country’s top blue flag beaches on the Dingle peninsula – made famous also by the film Ryan’s Daughter.

IN his column (Examiner County, April 20), Peter Levy wrote about the restriction that the ESB’s cross river pylons were having on the Tall Ships entering Cork’s upper harbour and how this was impacting on the possibility of the Tall Ships race returning to Cork.