Freshly Chopped is facing closure of one of its flagship outlets after it was refused retention planning permission for its branch on Dublin’s Grafton St.

It was residents who first suspected the noise of a wind farm was louder than expected, says Michael Clifford.

The redevelopment of the home ground of Waterford GAA is set to go ahead after an appeal by a residents’ group to an upgrade of Walsh Park was declared invalid.

A challenge against An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant approval for the M28 Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway has been specially fast-tracked by the High Court.

A municipal district council is likely to become the first in the country to ban the setting-up of gaming arcades in its jurisdiction.

Save Cork City mull next moves after successful legal challenge

A much-delayed plan to turn Dublin's College Green into a pedestrian plaza has been rejected.

Plans for a motorhome park beside an ancient stone circle in Co Kerry are being appealed to Bord Pleanála. The Bronze Age stone circle and boulder burial chamber, at Reenagappal in Kenmare is believed to be the largest such structure in the South-West.

Full planning permission has been secured this week for a €140m residential development of 413 homes, to include a tower of 25 storeys, at Cork’s Jacob’s Island, near Mahon Point and the Jack Lynch Tunnel.

An Bord Pleanála is denying a lack of manpower is to blame for ongoing delays in making a decision on planned changes to College Green in Dublin.

Dunnes Stores is facing a potential annual tax bill of €360,000 after losing a planning battle with a local authority which had placed a site, valued at €12m and owned by the supermarket group in south Dublin, on the vacant sites register.

An environmental group has secured permission to bring a High Court challenge against a decision of An Bord Pleanála to extend planning permission to develop a Liquid Natural Gas terminal on the Shannon Estuary.

The longest-serving councillor in Cork City has called for an emergency meeting after a European Court ruling delayed a key part of the city’s flood defences.

Glenveagh Properties has secured a €22m land deal in the Cork suburb of Douglas bringing its total spend on sites here in 2018 to about €50m. The publicly listed company’s latest acquisition is another challenge to the dominance of Cork’s home building market by ‘local’ developers.

A solicitor for campaigners behind the successful legal challenge of the first major flood defence scheme in Cork has accused City Hall of trying to “distort the true position” about why its planning was quashed.

There are no plans to change the design of a controversial public realm and flood defence scheme in Cork city which has been delayed by an EU court ruling.

Dunnes Stores has won a High Court order halting moves to place a closed shopping centre building in Limerick city centre on an official register for vacant sites

Clare County Council has put on hold plans for a €40m development at the Trump Doonbeg golf resort in west Clare.

The plan to build an eight storey apartment complex on Griffith Avenue, Dublin is raising some concerns.

Campaigners opposed to a plastics factory for the West Cork town of Skibbereen have been granted an application for a judicial review of the decision to allow it to proceed.