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

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.

Lessons will be learned from the traffic management of the Liam Miller tribute match, according to gardaí, following complaints about delays and the public transport provided for Tuesday’s sell-out event at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

A decision on the granting of a controversial license to Irish Cement, which would allow the company to burn alternative fuels, including used tyres, has been delayed due to a long list of objections from the public.

Work is nearing completion on the €8m clean-up of part of a Cork harbour island once used by Irish Steel/Irish Ispat and which will be opened as a public recreation area next year.

When people consider planning laws and planning permission, they normally associate it with building residential houses and commercial buildings.

A High Court judge has ordered that a dispute over redevelopment works at the Ormond Hotel in Dublin be case managed before a trial date can be given.

Judgement has been reserved at the Supreme Court on an appeal over whether An Bord Pleanála breached its obligations in how it approved the first phase of tech giant Apple’s planned €850m data centre in Co Galway.

The law was “radically misapplied” by An Bord Pleanála in the way it granted permission for the first phase of tech giant Apple’s planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway, the Supreme Court has heard.

PLANS by a Cork-based firm to convert the closed Two Mile Inn hotel on the Clare-Limerick border into a nursing home are in doubt.

CORK county engineer Noel O’Keeffe is to lead a delegation to Dublin in an attempt to get the €800 million Cork-Limerick motorway back on track.

Earthquakes and polluted water supplies are blamed on the gas extraction process ‘fracking’ now mooted for Ireland, says Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan

THE path looks clear for Cork’s new €150 million concert venue to proceed in the city centre as developer Owen O’Callaghan is ending his rival bid for a docklands venue.