SOUTH Tipperary County Council has urged An Bord Pleanála to reject the application of a company that wants to develop an animal by-products processing plant in a rural area close to horse training and breeding establishments.

CAMPAIGNERS against an incinerator which will turn waste into electricity for 50,000 Dublin homes are taking their fight to the High Court.

Plans for around 300 new homes in Carrigtwohill have been rejected because of the “substandard form” of the proposed development even after a revised plan to address concerns was submitted by the developer.

As partners for the past 11 years of the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment, we were relieved at the decision of Indaver to abandon its legal challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s planning refusal for their incinerators at Ringaskiddy.

The prospect of parts of the Midlands being turned into a “Shanghai on the Shannon” has been greeted positively in a region considered one of the country’s unemployment blackspots.

AN ORAL hearing into Port of Cork plans to build a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour cost the company almost €1.4m last year – resulting in a plunge in pre-tax profits.

NATIONAL Park authorities in Killarney have been given the all-clear to allow treated effluent from an old world café flow into a lakeland area.

A MAN has lost a bid to have either the Supreme Court or the European Court of Justice decide legal issues arising from his unsuccessful bid to bring a legal challenge to the granting of planning permission for a gas terminal in connection with the Corrib gas field.

FOR more than 20 years successive governments have neglected environmental issues. They invited pharmaceutical and chemical companies to set up business in Ireland without any obligation to find new production methods in order to avoid toxic waste.

A HOTEL redevelopment and extension has been given the go-ahead at one of the country’s top blue flag beaches on the Dingle peninsula – made famous also by the film Ryan’s Daughter.

ONE of the country’s busiest ports will lodge a planning application today for a €190 million container terminal in Cork harbour.