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 Cork rugby club has lost an appeal to An Bord Pleanála against McDonald's over a dividing wall between their two properties.

An Bord Pleanála has told the High Court it made an error in its decision granting planning permission for a development of 500 housing units in north Dublin.

A whole new development focus has sprung into life just west of Cork city, where a 15.9 acre landbank offer on the N40 will test developers’ and end-users appetite for prime land.

Campaigners against a proposed controversial €160 million incinerator for Cork Harbour today got permission from the High Court to mount a legal challenge to the proposed plant.

Accumulated profits at the main firm owned by rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last year almost topped the €6m mark.

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.

Objectors to a €220m Cork motorway that has received approval from An Bord Pleanála have said they will consider their options in the coming days — including potential court action — to prevent the development from going ahead.

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A major new motorway project in Cork has been approved by An Bord Pleanála.

Supermac’s owner Pat McDonagh has restarted plans to put in place a €10m forecourt plaza on the Limerick to Galway motorway.