RESIDENTS lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála yesterday against plans for another apartment block in a Cork suburb.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche announced that the route of the Waterford bypass must change to protect an important Viking site.

A planning row has broken out in Tralee over plans for a major extension of a retail park on the outskirts of the town.

Figures showing that house prices have jumped by between 11% and 17% in Cork, Galway, Limerick, and Waterford over the last year underline the scale of the housing crisis and how very difficult it will be to resolve. 

Plans for the largest hotel to be built in Cork city centre have been put on hold, following objections by the owner of a private, third-level college building.

THE great protection we afford property is seen at its sharpest in our shameful housing crisis.

Kerry is to seek to declare itself an island from the rest of Ireland, a councillor and former All-Ireland football medal winner with Kerry has said.

A public oral hearing into the proposed children's hospital at the Mater Hospital in Dublin has opened.

A ROW over who owns a plot of land has put the future of a new multi-million euro railway station in jeopardy.

Residents opposed to a contested windfarm development in West Waterford are to hold a public information evening this week.

The development of Clare’s first FootGolf course has been met with stiff opposition from the residents of Hurler’s Cross, who say that the development will have a negative impact “on every aspect of the lives” of local people.

Management at the National Paediatric Hospital has rejected criticism over its fire safety measures after reports that it sought a derogation from some conditions.

LOCAL residents have claimed the scale of the proposed new stadium at Lansdowne Road is too large and designed merely to incorporate highly lucrative conference facilities.

Amazon is facing a fresh planning battle to build a large new data centre in west Dublin amid claims it could affect plans to build new houses.

An Bord Pleanala has given the go-ahead for the new Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) campus at Grangegorman in Dublin.