Ruling made despite dozens of objections to original plans and appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

Payments and transfers could be made directly from individual to individual through digital euros, without relying on for-profit banks and clearing houses as middlemen, a reader argues

Beacon Hospital aims to invest €75m redeveloping nearby hotel in Dublin, and to double the size of its Limerick screening clinic

One neighbour who supported their application to build an extension said getting planning approval for the extension “would benefit all of us”

Development firm Bmor warned local residents that if the judicial challenge is not withdrawn by Friday, it "will have no choice but to comply with the increased density required by the Cork City Development Plan if we go for a renewed permission".

It also emerged today that ABP is currently running an annual deficit in its finances of €5m, up from €4m in 2021, and has been for some time

Council turned down plans for 12,893sq m development in West Dublin area of Clondalkin

The Cork-born former deputy chair of An Bord Pleanála was central to a cultural shift that saw the stock of the previously unimpeachable organisation plummet to a shocking low

Uisce Éireann is under fire as residents have had to spend thousands of euro over the last seven years on bottled water, writes Sean O’Riordan

Paul Hyde has lodged an appeal and the matter is now likely to go to the circuit court

A major extension to the emergency department at Cork University Hospital has been put on hold after the planning approval granted by Cork City Council was appealed to An Bord Pleanála.

For seven years the 9,500 householders who get their water from the Whitegate water supply scheme in East Cork have either had to boil the water coming from their taps or buy bottled water.

Michael Duffy said that there is an “environmental issue” relating to how the Pat McDonagh application plans to deal with its waste water

Paul Hyde will learn on Friday whether he will receive a conviction after pleading guilty to two breaches of planning laws

Judge James McNulty's comments in Bandon Court will have far wider resonance — and last much longer — than any jail term

Real reform is long overdue — including a covenant that those who work for regulatory bodies cannot then move into roles within the industries they have been scrutinising

Rachel Kenny, one of the figures at the centre of a major controversy in An Bord Pleanála last year, is leaving her post as director of planning

Paul Hyde has pleaded guilty to two breaches of planning laws, in what the court heard was a “very serious” case. 

Irish Water confirmed it had the capacity to complete a connection for a housing development of 255 units.

The new state-of-the-art water treatment facility will serve approximately 10,300 people living in east Cork.