An elected member of Cork County Council has failed in her attempt to block the development of a large apartment block in Passage West.

Aodhan O’Riordan and Finian McGrath are two politicians who appear eager to tackle the housing crisis but wish to insulate their own back yards from the emergency, writes Michael Clifford

County councillors are adamant they will not change amenity zoning on a former GAA club in Cork after talks to purchase it broke down with the receiver.

The Catholic Church is facing a large tax bill next year after losing an appeal against the inclusion on the vacant sites register of lands it owns at Blackpool in Cork.

An online petition against the opening of the arcade launched by Mr Lane collected 1,607 names.

Iarnród Éireann has run into difficulty with the planning authorities over repairs it carried out to a footbridge over a railway line in Co Tipperary.

Residents in a west Waterford townland have lodged an appeal to Bord Pleanála against Waterford Council’s decision to grant planning for a solar farm on a 74-acre rural site.

Questions over how to fund the proposed events centre in Cork has left the project in limbo and the city still waiting for its first curtain call, writes Eoin English.

Temple Bar residents, led by author and former Irish Times journalist Frank McDonald, have succeeded in blocking plans for a four-storey student accommodation block in the area.

Environmentalists have succeeded in halting a proposed extension to a quarry in Co Kerry which they feared would cause damage to a local beauty spot.

Waterford chairman Pat Joe Ryan has expressed disappointment at how GAA chiefs treated the county following their breach of training camp protocols.

Cllr Mick Finn has said that plans to build 57 student apartments, including some 419 student beds, on Bandon Road will create an imbalance that will threaten other communities in the area.

A windfarm proposed for north Kerry, near the Shannon estuary, has been refused planning permission, on grounds of its potential adverse impact on the environment.

Dublin City Council has given the green light to developer, Harry Crosbie for a new eight storey 185 bedroom hotel at Vicar Street in the Dublin Liberties in spite of some local opposition.

There is a groundswell of opposition to the factory plan in Skibbereen, writes Noel Baker.

Cork County Council is to seek a meeting with Minister Eoghan Murphy amid fears that rural areas could be overrun with new homes after Bord Pleanála asked developers to increase densities.

Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons has weighed into the campaign against a plastics factory in Skibbereen, calling the plan a “hopeless misjudgement” and vowing to fight it.

Will Waterford City and County Council really initiate enforcement proceedings against a wind farm in breach of planning laws?

Plans for around 300 new homes in Carrigtwohill have been rejected because of the “substandard form” of the proposed development even after a revised plan to address concerns was submitted by the developer.

Tommy Barker finds new scheme in the Mahon/Skehard area is a well-priced 2019 new homes suburban Cork development