The new planning minister said he will be “disappointed” if An Bord Pleanála approves the building of an incinerator in Co Cork but that he would find himself in court if he tried to intervene.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar said yesterday it was a “great regret and a great tragedy for the country” that the planned building of the new national children’s hospital took so long.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar talks a lot, both on and off the airwaves, but he isn’t often given to over-excitement. He exudes a calm demeanour amidst the maelstrom of political life.

Nothing in the environmental impact statement (EIS) accompanying Indaver Ireland’s planning application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy adequately explains the health impact it could have, according to a specialist in public health.

Well-known Dublin hotel, Wynn’s has put the brakes on a €16m plan by property investment fund Tetrarch Capital to build a new boutique hotel off O’Connell Street.

Submissions have been made in relation to the proposed Albert Quay office development, for which Owen O’Callaghan has sought permission in Cork’s south docklands.

Waste management company Indaver is in talks with Cork County Council to bury, in a mothballed landfill site, up to 40,000 tonnes of ash yearly from a proposed €160m controversial incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge brought against An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to grant planning permission for a nine-screen cinema, café, and retail units in Navan, Co Meath.

County councillors have voted unanimously to notify Bord Pleanála of their total opposition to Indaver Ireland’s plan to build a €160m incinerator in Cork harbour.

An Bord Pleanála is facing as many legal challenges now as it did during the building boom, with a growing proportion of its decisions being taken for judicial review.

The wife of billionaire Dermot Desmond has lost her planning battle with model and next door neighbour, Karen Reihill, at one of Dublin 4’s most sought after addresses at Ailesbury Road.

An Bord Pleanála has given the go-ahead for a bus depot in Dublin’s docklands despite facing opposition from accounting giant PwC and developer Johnny Ronan.

The operators of the 3Arena are among appellants in relation to recent permission for increased audience capacity for concerts at the Citywest centre in south Dublin.

Lisa Flynn was one of a group of parents who travelled to Dublin yesterday to voice their opposition to the location of the new children’s hospital.

A government minister has defended the pre-election sod turning on the stalled €53m Cork event centre despite no building work on site four months on.

Families living in the Lee Valley area of Co Cork are refusing to give up their nine-year fight to stop a windfarm being sited close to one of the Europe’s last ancient river forests. They are to appeal Cork County Council’s latest decision to An Bord Pleanála.

The company proposing to build a waste-to-energy plant in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, has dismissed claims that incinerators account for 70% of all dioxins or that an explosion which recently rocked one of its Belgian sites could happen here.

A €6.5m solar farm, part of an independent power company’s plans for 11 such projects in Co Cork, has been refused planning permission.