Despite guidelines in the Cork County Development Plan, council planners say around 50% of the county is still "open to consideration" as regards the erection of wind farms.

A new blueprint for the future of Cork county points to 58,000 new housing units being needed by 2022 to accommodate population growth.

CONTENTIOUS plans for a €40 million private hospital for Ennis have been thrown out by An Bord Pleanála.

PLANS for a unique tourism product on the eastern edge of the Burren that has the potential to generate €3 million per annum and create up to 18 jobs have been thrown into doubt.

CROKE PARK will be unavailable for next year’s prestigious World Handball Championships because of its handball centre’s protracted planning permission process.

KERRY county manager Tom Curran has promised to maintain pressure on the National Roads Authority (NRA) and Cork County Council to ensure work on the long-awaited Macroom bypass road goes ahead.

SHELL IRELAND has received a further cash injection of €60 million from its parent company to complete the Corrib gas field project.

A CONTROVERSIAL plan by Kerry County Council to abstract water from the River Sheen to supply the tourist town of Kenmare is the subject of a two-day planning hearing that starts today.

BUSINESSES losing out in a race with a rival to provide a new multi-million euro supermarket in the west Clare town of Miltown Malbay have made a last-ditch effort to kick start their project.

WHAT is it about a river?

MORE than 100 jobs are under threat at Castleisland in Co Kerry.

UP TO 460 jobs could be created in North Tipperary, South Offaly and Clare with the development of two new M7 motorway services facilities in Birdhill and Moneygall and the securing of a US contract by a Shannon firm.

LOCAL residents opposing the use of part of the Tank Field on Cork’s northside for a school are to hold a public meeting next week.

PEOPLE living near a toxic waste site in Cork harbour have suffered enough from a disgraceful issue that must be dealt with sooner rather than later, Environment Minister Phil Hogan has said.

DOONBEG Golf Club has been given until the end of July to demolish an eight-foot high wall reportedly built without planning permission.

DESPITE concerns by An Taisce about the erection of wind farms in scenic areas of Kerry, official policy is to encourage the continuing development of wind-generated electricity.

IT read like a script from a popular TV soap — neighbours from hell, late-night noise and a legal wrangle that threatened to turn nasty.

THE Freedom of Information Act (FoI) is too often clubbed on the head by state agencies and left comatose as far as smaller community groups are concerned.

PROTECTED slugs which forced the redesign of a €200 million bypass are to be moved from certain areas along the route after An Bord Pleanála gave the road project the green light.