A High Court challenge against An Bord Pleanála's decision to give the green-light to a €220m motorway linking the south of Cork city to the new Port of Cork got underway today.

The new €50m State funding package for the beleaguered Cork event centre project is facing a High Court legal challenge.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

OBJECTORS have until close of business on Monday to lodge submissions with An Bord Pleanála in relation to the construction of a €600 million motorway linking Cork and Limerick.

DIOXIN levels in the Cork Harbour area could increase by up to 5% when the planned incinerators are in operation — but, even with such increases, emissions would still fall well below legal limits, an oral hearing was told.

PLANS for one of the country’s longest and most expensive motorways linking Cork and Limerick will be lodged with An Bord Pleanála today.

OFFICIALS were last night trying to track down a developer who is believed to have allowed Travellers move onto a site at the centre of a bitter planning row.

SO, An Bord Pleanála have confirmed what anyone with even a passing interest in Ireland’s disappearing countryside has known for at least a decade.

WORK on re-developing Plunkett Station in Waterford could begin in a number of weeks following the local council’s decision to grant planning permission.

THE biggest construction project ever undertaken in south Tipperary is set to commence within months.

Cork City Council has given the go-ahead for a major c 200,000 sq ft office development plan at Albert Quay, Cork.

Significant internal and external changes to Cork’s Merchants Quay Shopping Centre are proposed in an application lodged last week.

AN Bord Pleanála has given the green light for the redevelopment of a “virtually derelict” site close to a major junction at the northern entrance to top tourist town Killarney.

Cork County Council is set to seek planning permission in the next few weeks for an iconic €7m project aimed at transforming the country’s most south-westerly island into a tourist mecca.