Cork County Council is set to seek planning permission in the next few weeks for an iconic €7m project aimed at transforming the country’s most south-westerly island into a tourist mecca.

Property developers are planning over 4,000 apartments in Dublin under new fast-track planning rules.

Life assurance firm Friends First has hit out at the failure to regularise under the planning code any system for landlords for Airbnb style lettings.

Developer Johnny Ronan has unveiled plans for a €350m residential development in Dublin’s Docklands.

Despite the fact work has not yet started on the events venue, the key players insist the project will eventually reach fruition, writes Eoin English

The hardy monks used to winter in Ballinskelligs. They’d come in from the Rock as the weather turned nasty at the darkest time of year. And then, when the Skellig could no longer be inhabited at all, they moved lock, stock and barrel into Ballinskelligs and established an abbey.

Dublin City Council has delivered an emphatic ‘no’ to property owners seeking planning permission to change the use of their properties to Airbnb style lettings in the city centre.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for the development of a major housing development near Bishopstown in the south-west of Cork city.

The Irish Wildlife Trust is objecting to a wind farm in Co Longford.

The Taoiseach has defended the State’s €7m legal bill in the €14bn Apple tax case insisting Ireland must defend its international reputation from suggestions it’s a tax haven.

A four-star luxury castle hotel in Kerry has been refused planning permission for an extension, because of the adverse impact it would have on the historic building.

The planning watchdog has shot down proposals to establish a new walkway at the historic final boarding point for the Titanic.

A 3,500 unit housing development has been approved for Poolbeg West in Dublin.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by local residents over An Bord Pleanála’s approval for the first phase of tech giant Apple’s planned €850m data centre in Athenry.

Cork County Council has issued a tender for engineering and environmental consultants to design and oversee works on the damaged weir on the River Blackwater in Fermoy.

Planning permission has been granted for a controversial solar farm in West Cork, despite opposition from a local community group.

The need to reduce our dependency on carbon-generated energy is one of the imperatives of our age.

A wind farm which was not built according to planning permission has been issued with an enforcement notice to cease operations.

Cork City’s formerly controversial Stapleton House finally looks fit for purpose, having lain empty since built over a decade ago.

Residents of a planned upmarket apartment block development in Foxrock in south Dublin will able to avail of ‘pay as you go driving’ from five shared GoCar vehicles to be based at the address.