A CONTENTIOUS development spanning 195 acres that is to receive over 18 million tonnes of red bauxite residue at the Aughinish Alumina plant on the Shannon estuary is due to commence operating later this month.

A GROUP of Killarney pharmacists has lodged yet another objection to a local GP-led healthcare centre.

A WASTE management contractor who has run a recycling business without planning permission for more than six years has given an undertaking to cease operations at the site in north Kerry by May 31.

A WASTE management company that lost its bid to develop a 240,000-tonne incinerator in Cork harbour is to seek the re-opening of the 2009 An Bord Pleanála hearing into the planned project.

THE former chairman of An Bord Pleanala, John O’Connor, received a lump sum payment of €364,617 when stepping down from the role this year.

ONE of Shell’s partners in the €2.5 billion Corrib Gas project has conceded that gas will not now be brought ashore until 2014.

HERITAGE campaigners have told An Bord Pleanála they fear an historic city landmark will become nothing more than a “curiosity” if a €150 million events centre goes ahead on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

NOTHING stands still: not time, not the ground we stand on, and certainly not a city.

A CORK city councillor has claimed that sectional interests were put ahead of the public interest in previous decisions relating to a planning application for a gaelscoil on the city’s northside.

THE GAA has been accused of trying to turn Croke Park into “an adventure sports park” after the sports organisation submitted plans which would allow visitors to engage in abseiling and ziplining off the roof of the stadium.

THE developers of a proposed €10 million wind farm in west Clare have appealed Clare Co Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for the development.

A COUPLE have warned that their home in an abandoned estate in Clare will become derelict unless AIB agrees to provide services to the property.

THE future of a medical centre that serves more than 1,000 patients has been thrown into question.

THE promoter behind a planned €200 million wind farm in west Clare yesterday warned it will not proceed unless there is was an overhaul of the grid connection system.

AN appeal against Cork City Council’s refusal of planning for a new home for one of the country’s oldest multi-denominational gaelscoileanna is expected to be lodged within days.

FEELINGS are running high in west Clare over the proposed construction of a €10 million wind farm, amid claims posters opposing the development have been taken down.

This modern homestead enhances a slice of pastoral paradise, by blending into the landscape. Tommy Barker reports

A LOCAL authority yesterday refused planning permission for a contentious 400ft high wind farm due to its likely impact on a protected and rare bird, the Hen Harrier.

PROMOTERS of the proposed super-casino in Tipperary have vowed to press ahead with their plans despite the Government yesterday ruling out legislation allowing so-called large resort-style casinos.

COMMERCIAL sea plane flights between Dublin and the mid-west were given official approval yesterday.