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

Bord na Móna and the ESB are battling to secure planning permission for a large-scale solar farm that will have the capacity to power 30% of all households in Co Kildare each year.

AMID growing concerns about delays in moving ahead with plans for a natural gas-fired power plant at Tarbert, Co Kerry, a two-day oral planning hearing into the project begins tomorrow.

A MAJOR building programme at its Dublin headquarters is essential if RTÉ is to maintain its position as the national broadcaster into the digital age, director general Cathal Goan told a Bord Pleanála hearing yesterday.

THE oldest hunt in the country has been denied planning permission for kennels after Bord Pleanála upheld an objection by the Brothers of Charity.

A 360-degree viewing platform, with panoramic coastal views, will form part of a planned €100 million wind farm.

Telecommunications masts dominating the skyline of north Kerry will remain in place.

A plan by developer Johnny Ronan for an upmarket residential development in Dublin 4 where residents will have access to a communal smart car has been thrown into question.

Plans to redevelop Ireland’s most expensive house, bought by developer Sean Dunne and his wife Gayle Killilea for €58m in 2005, have been rejected.

The signs summed up the story: “Our Road Is A Mess — We Want Progress.’.

Another autumn of discontent awaits college students as the scramble for scarcer and dearer accommodation is tougher than in any of the last 10 years.

The Port of Cork is to adopt a web booking system for hauliers which has been pioneered by an English port to cut down on traffic gridlock at peak times.

LIMERICK City Council has been called on to carry out an urgent inspection of the site of the on-hold Opera (Shopping) Centre in the city centre as may of the buildings there are over 100 years old and have been unoccupied for years.