The light has been extinguished for the New Life Christian Church in Kerry.

Appeals taken by An Taisce against reckless speculative development have likely saved the taxpayer between €500m and €750m in the last decade, the heritage body has claimed.

Residents fighting a proposal to rezone land next to Páirc Uí Chaoimh have vowed to pack Cork City Hall tonight and “look councillors in the eye” as they vote.

The prospect of parts of the Midlands being turned into a “Shanghai on the Shannon” has been greeted positively in a region considered one of the country’s unemployment blackspots.

A delegation will meet Transport Minister Leo Varadkar this month to persuade him to sanction money for two bypasses and a relief road in Co Cork.

In no particular order or weight ... Paul Brady, Henry Shefflin, Myrtle Allen, Saoirse Ronan, the Gulf Stream’s micro climate, Seamus Heaney, Fiona Shaw, Martin Hayes, Graham Norton, the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Rory McIlroy, Olivia O’Leary, Connemara, the Delphi and Blackwater valleys, Julie Feeney, John Hume, Lyric FM, Michael Noonan’s unflinching, selfless resolve at a moment of great personal tragedy.

Pupils, parents and staff of an East Cork gaelscoil cheered the news that work should begin on their long-awaited new school building within three years.

Experts have warned the future build of the National Children’s Hospital could be at risk if the Government fails to include a planner on its special review group.

Owen O’Callaghan is one of the few property developers who is still trading successfully five years after the property market first fell off a cliff.

After forensically outlining the scale of corruption at almost every level of political life, the Mahon Tribunal makes a series of recommendations which it says will “assist” in combating that corruption in the future.

The group opposed to the building of incinerators in Cork Harbour has agreed to be represented at Indaver’s High Court challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to allow the incinerators to go ahead.

I agree with An Bord Pleanála’s refusal of permission for the new national children’s hospital. I am concerned with the overall proposed design of the building apart from the proposed location.

The response to the rejection of the planning application for the proposed National Children’s Hospital was more than intriguing.

Health Minister James Reilly was told on his appointment that reducing the scale of the €650m National Children’s Hospital on the Mater site would impact on patient care.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse permission for the National Children’s Hospital at Eccles Street, Dublin 1, has come as a bolt out of the blue to the development board of the National Paediatric Hospital, government ministers, the HSE and the Department of Health. I don’t like saying “I told you so.”

Building a smaller national children’s hospital on the Mater site in Dublin is a “distinct possibility”, Health Minister James Reilly has said.

When Health Minister James Reilly says that it would not be right for him to prejudge anything that might come out of the latest review of the plans for a new National Children’s Hospital, he never said anything truer.

A greenfield location will be considered for the new children’s hospital as an alternative to the city centre Mater site, Health Minister James Reilly confirmed.

In relation to a site for the new children’s hospital, Health Minister James Reilly said “everything is on the table”. Here are the current options facing the group tasked with identifying a location.

Health Minister James Reilly said the Government was not “wed” to the Mater site as a location for the new children’s hospital, but said it did need to be co-located with an adult hospital.