Plans for a €50m, nine-storey office block in Cork City have been dealt a further blow with news of two further objections to its planning permission — including one from the owners of Ireland’s tallest building.

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has won a planning contribution row, saving it nearly €335,000 in costs, with Dublin City Council regarding the university’s planned new €60m E3 Foundry facility.

A clear strategy outlining an alternative energy supply needs to be drawn up.

A new €100m development at the Royal Dublin Society grounds in Dublin was today given the go-ahead.

Enforcement proceedings against Barnafaddock Wind Farm raise serious questions around planning, the law and national policy on wind energy, writes Michael Clifford

THE Dublin Airport Authority has claimed that its proposed second terminal at Dublin Airport is arguably “the most important public building in a generation.”

Munster Rugby might be flying high in Europe, but they have suffered a rare defeat at Thomond Park — to a group of local residents.

A single farmer in Co Mayo has won the right to be buried on his own land.

THE terrace of houses at Beechwood Place, on the Douglas Road in Cork is for keeps: An Bord Pleanála has said so.

THE development of a animal byproducts and bio-energy plant in south Tipperary is “in the national interest”, promoters of the proposed facility said yesterday.

THE oral hearing which will decide whether the €365 million redevelopment of Lansdowne Road can go ahead will start in Dublin this morning.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning for a 10-storey apartment and leisure complex on a derelict site near Dungarvan town centre.

Planning permission has been granted for two large solar farms in east Cork despite objections from local residents and community groups.

Permission has been granted for a large windfarm on the Cork-Limerick border which will be run by ESB Wind Development.

OVER the last five years, my beautiful, tiny village of Caherdaniel in Co Kerry, and its immediate catchment area of Derrynane, has been shattered and its citizens traumatised.

LOCAL doctors behind a new medical centre proposed for Killarney are appealing against a demand for almost €2 million in development levies.