A DECISION by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a cafe on the Great Blasket Island opens the way for the purchase of the island by the Government.

AN TAISCE has objected to plans by Coillte to build a 90-bed nursing home in a forestry in east Cork.

The High Court has ordered An Bord Pleanála to make a sworn statement that it is not withholding documents from the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (Chase) as the campaign group prepares to challenge the board’s controversial decision to grant planning permission for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy.

A DECISION by An Bórd Pleanála to grant planning permission for a new school on land zoned for sport is final, Cork city councillors will be told tonight.

PLANS for a €80 million 100-bed private hospital in Cork have been shot down.

DUBLIN City Council has been accused of flouting its own planning regulations by allowing work to begin on a major shopping centre within metres of a national monument linked to the 1916 Rising.

THE Friends of St Colman’s Cathedral have accused Cork County Council of packing a conference with speakers who supported the controversial reordering of the cathedral in Cobh.

A decision on the fate of a controversial incinerator proposed for the lower Cork Harbour area has been postponed for the third time.

It will be summer at the earliest before any major work gets under way to make safe a toxic waste dump in Cork harbour, city officials have said.

The builder who is erecting a stone wall to give Kian Egan privacy at his home has joked that he wish he knew how rich the ex-Westlife singer was before he priced the job.

THE Department of the Environment has lodged a submission to An Bord Pleanála outlining potential risks to human, plant and animal life from the proposed development of two e150 million incinerators at Cork Harbour.

A consortium of hospitals in Dublin has come together to support revised plans at the Mater hospital site for a new National Children's Hospital.

Children's Hospital development board member, businesswoman Norah Casey, has repeated the Mater Hospital site as the best location for the new facility.

TRAFFIC congestion and an inadequate water supply in Kenmare, Co Kewrry, are among the main reasons for the refusal of planning permission for a controversial development which had been earmarked for the town.