A TOWN bypassed by the Celtic Tiger is preparing to fight for the right to be linked to the new M20 Cork-Limerick motorway.

A PROPOSAL by a Killarney hotel to demolish 108 bedrooms and, instead, build shops and restaurants has been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

ENGINEERING experts have told a Bord Pleanála oral hearing up to 70 lives could be saved over the next 30 years if a motorway is developed between Cork and Limerick.

AN Bord Pleanála has given the green light for the redevelopment of a “virtually derelict” site close to a major junction at the northern entrance to top tourist town Killarney.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has insisted he is complying with the “letter of the law” in the way he is handling an incinerator project which he and his constituents oppose.

CORK’S political leaders have joined forces to secure Government funding for the design of a bridge which could unlock the city’s docklands for regeneration.

MAJOR planning and banking bills have been passed by the Dáil in contentious circumstances.

BUSINESS at the planning appeals board, An Bord Pleanála, almost halved in two years as the slump in building took hold.

SIX professors of paediatrics opposed to the selection of the Mater Hospital as the site for a new national children’s hospital have publicly challenged the right of their representative body to say it endorses the project.

AN TAISCE has objected to plans by Coillte to build a 90-bed nursing home in a forestry in east Cork.

AN BORD PLEANÁLA has refused Cork harbour residents — who have spent nine years fighting against the construction of a €150 million Indaver incinerator — further time to investigate new documentation supplied by the waste management company.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has withdrawn its objection to a €200 million office project in Cork which has the potential to create 1,500 jobs.

OBJECTIONS against a €60 million investment on Cork city’s northside, at the old Sunbeam Wolsey site, have been rejected by An Bord Pleanála, clearing the way for a development which can cater for up to 3,000 jobs.

ENTERPRISE Minister Batt O’Keeffe said he hopes a resolution can be found through discussion to a planning impasse that is threatening the creation of some 1,500 jobs in Cork.

ONE of the country’s leading developers said he may seek a judicial review after An Bord Pleanála refused him permission for the second time to construct a €400 million housing project.

A CONTROVERSIAL multi-million-euro marina planned for a west Cork village has received the thumbs down from An Bord Pleanála.

SPANISH energy giant Endesa must provide more information on environmental issues as part of its planning application for a €500 million gas-fired power plant at Tarbert.

CONCERNS over flooding have led Bord Pleanála to refuse planning permission for a €80 million private hospital in Cork city.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has confirmed it is preparing a major plan to ease gridlock on Cork’s two busiest junctions and plans to present its proposals to An Bord Pleanála by summer 2012.

THANKFULLY there is still time to save the people of this country from the serious mistake of building a new national children’s hospital in Dublin’s north-inner city on the grounds of the already crowded Mater Hospital complex.