A coffee chain is facing an uphill struggle to be allowed to keep its flagship outlet in Cork open.

A controversial Starbucks outlet on Cork city’s main street has closed after a three-year planning battle.

Provisional figures show there are 3,618 people in the North Cork area in need of housing and councillors have expressed frustration at the delay in some housing projects coming on stream.

A new 40-bed modular unit designed to alleviate pressure at one of the country's most overcrowded hospitals could be open by next spring after planning permission was secured for the development.

A fatal explosion at an Indaver waste plant in Belgium highlights the “insanity” of the company’s proposed incinerator being located close to a bus stop used by college students in Cork harbour, opponents said last night.

A proposed wind farm development will have “catastrophic” consequences for a Co Cork town’s public water supply, according to a health and safety expert.

Cork County Council has advised ESB International not to transport large amounts of concrete into a site where wind turbines are being constructed until a traffic management plan is altered.

Amazon is facing a fresh planning battle to build a large new data centre in west Dublin amid claims it could affect plans to build new houses.

Objections have been raised to halt the expansion of facilities at a one of Kerry’s most popular tourist attractions.

The project, which was initially given the go-ahead earlier this year, would have seen 432 apartments and 104 houses built on lands at St Paul's College in Raheny.

There have been calls for City Hall to help “mend the hurt” caused by a complex and at times bitter 12-year planning saga over the future of a green in Cork City.

SuperValu has been accused of using the planning laws to “thwart competition”, jeopardising employment, after the owner of one of the chain’s supermarkets in a Cork town objected to proposals to expand a rival store across the road from his business.

Plans by Lidl to replace its shop in Fermoy, Co Cork, with a larger one are being put on hold following an objection by a member of the public.

A ready to build out site for a scheme of 77 homes, most of them semi-detached, is being put up for sale, with bids sought close to €4.5m, and with interest expected from local firms, as well as possibly new arrivals to the Cork market.

A “dedicated” policing service must be part of a compensation package to communities and businesses affected by the State’s first injecting centre for heroin users, according to the head of the charity awarded the contract to run the service.

New Government fast-track planning rules have delivered planning permission for more than 4,300 residential units over the past year.

Plans to develop “a landmark building” overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay, in the south Kerry Gaeltacht, have been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.

Plans by John Cleary Developments (JCD) for a new, €125 million quayside office scheme on an assembled 1.8 acre site on Cork city’s Penrose Quay, close to the railway station, may bring the company’s tally of offices developed in Cork to well over one million square feet, in just over a decade of activity.

Permission has been granted to a couple by the High Court to bring a challenge to a 50-apartment development on school lands next to their home in Dalkey, Co Dublin.

Plans for a large-scale mosque in West Dublin have been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála in spite of local opposition.