A decision about how to permanently memorialise victims of institutional child abuse has still not been made by the Department of Education five years after a planning setback — and nearly a decade since it was recommended in the landmark Ryan Report.

A hospital foundation says it now has to look for a new site in Cork City for its proposed cancer care centre after the project was shot down by An Bord Pleanála.

The regeneration of Cork’s docklands has stepped up another gear with work underway on a €125m office block on the northern quays which will be able to accommodate more than 2,250 workers by mid-2020.

Mercy University Hospital has been refused planning permission for a new cancer care centre in Cork city following objections from a local resident.

A legal challenge is among the options being considered by residents in the wake of a Bord Pleanála decision to grant planning for apartments on the site of a former Magdalene laundry in Cork city.

A couple has been refused permission by the High Court to appeal a decision to dismiss their challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s permission for construction of a wind farm near their home in Co Cork.

A fast-tracked housing project for Dublin which was due to begin construction in 2017 now faces a three-year delay.

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.