Planning for solar farms is being “kept under review”, the minister with responsibility for planning Simon Coveney has said, amid growing concerns about the lack of national guidelines.

John Malone has applied for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton Hotel on Grand Canal.

US billionaire John Malone has secured planning permission for a major extension to his Hilton hotel at Charlemont Place at Grand Canal in Dublin after An Bord Pleanála gave the go-ahead for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension.

More than 30 new sites in Cork City have been declared derelict as part of a concerted effort to tackle dereliction in the city.

Communities are hitting back at a surge in solar farm construction spreading across the country with no specific planning guidelines in place to regulate them.

No specific guidelines are available for solar energy farms in Irish planning but applications are being lodged in an abundance along Kerry, Cork and the west coast.

Neil Jordan has lost his long running planning battle with his next-door neighbour, Robin Power, over an 11m sq bathing shelter.

A resident has lodged an appeal against Dublin City Council’s approval for British pub chain JD Wetherspoon’s plan for a new superpub on Camden Street; telling Bord Pleanála permission would represent “an unwelcome milestone”.

A group of residents in Dublin 4 are opposing fresh plans by a property firm backed by businessman Denis O’Brien for a new €50m luxury apartment block development.

An Taisce has put the brakes on the owners of the four-star Radisson Blu hotel in Dublin city centre from proceeding with a major extension plan which includes 103 additional bedrooms.

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It is estimated internationally that 6% of the wells the frackers bore through the rock will leak, writes Victoria White.

Government Chief Whip Regina Doherty has put her position in jeopardy by saying she will back anti-pylon protesters in any “civil disobedience” measures taken to prevent the new north-south electricity inter-connector.

Apple has been given the go-ahead to begin work on its planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.

A question has been raised over plans by US billionaire John Malone to add a new seven-storey 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton hotel in Dublin.