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.

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

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

AN appeal against Cork City Council’s refusal of planning for a new home for one of the country’s oldest multi-denominational gaelscoileanna is expected to be lodged within days.

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

HAS our lovely little republic decended into a bureaucratic bearpit?

CORK County Council planning officials have been urged not to force biofuel industries to locate in urban areas or ports.

Well-known Dublin hotel, Wynn’s has put the brakes on a €16m plan by property investment fund Tetrarch Capital to build a new boutique hotel off O’Connell Street.

NAKED political opportunism is the charge confronting Tánaiste Michael McDowell following his declaration that the Progressive Democrats will not take part in any future Government which supports the incinerator planned for his Dublin constituency.

Fianna Fáil TDs and senators from the western region have agreed to ask Enterprise Energy Ireland to re-apply for planning permission to build an onshore gas terminal in Co Mayo.

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.

In total, the number of planning permissions granted for dwelling units - houses and apartments - is down 3.5%.

An Bord Pleanála has given the green light for a new nine-storey office block overlooking the River Liffey opposite the International Financial Services Centre.

Golfer Christy O’Connor Jr has brought a High Court challenge over a dispute about planning permission he obtained for three houses on family land.