Two local residents have applied to the Supreme Court to permission to bring an appeal over the High Court's rejection of their challenge to permission for tech giant Apple to develop the first phase of a planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.

We’ve done our bit — now it’s up to the minister, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a decision to grant planning permission for a new hotel on the site of a popular Dublin nightclub.

An Bord Pleanála has given the go-ahead for a new €40m luxury hotel for Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green despite security fears being raised by staff at the adjoining offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

A dispute over a planned new Aldi supermarket in Laytown, Co Meath, has come before the High Court.

One of Ireland’s first suburban shopping centres is set for a massive €100m redevelopment.

Three legal challenges against plans for a new €320m runway at Dublin Airport have been thrown out by the High Court.

Following the judgments the cases were adjourned for a week to allow all the parties consider the court's decisions.

They wanted to appeal the Commercial Court’s decision to uphold the granting of planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.

A judge will rule next week whether to allow two local residents appeal his decision clearing the way for tech giant Apple to develop the first phase of a planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.

Plans for the College Green plaza in Dublin have been delayed.

The High Court has rejected an appeal against a €280m power line between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Dublin Bus has said it has put forward recommendations "to allow for accessible public transport" at College Green.

A cluster of metal boxes housing electric cabling for the Luas at College Green in Dublin is being likened to a "mini stonehenge".

An opponent of Apple’s stalled plans for a data centre in Co Galway has failed to prevent online giant Amazon securing planning permission for the first phase of its plans for a €1bn data centre in north-west Dublin.

A proposal by Shannon LNG for a heat and power electricity-generating plant to serve the country’s first liquefied natural gas terminal on the Shannon Estuary has been submitted to An Bord Pleanála.

Celebrity hotelier John Brennan looks set to see his dream of developing a luxurious, safari-style camping park in Kerry come true after An Bord Pleanála withdrew an appeal.

AS US-BASED internet security company FireEye last week visited Cork City and its suburbs to consider new offices for 150 jobs, and as several significant other office demands progress around the city, planning permission has just been refused by An Bord Pleanala for an 82,000 sq ft office and mixed used development in suburban Wilton.

Bord Pleanála has granted permission for a company to recycle 45,000 tonnes of scrapped metal annually at a former dockyard in Co Cork.

THE former Lovetts’ Restaurant in Cork City’s suburbs is back for sale as a development opportunity with planning for 19 units: it is priced at €500,000 with Savills agents, Isobel O’Regan and Sam Daunt.