RESIDENTS of an historic west Kerry village have vowed to continue their campaign against an Eircom mast after an Bord Pleanála overruled its own inspector to give the project the green light.

UP to 500 jobs will be created in Dungarvan after a €440m shopping complex has been given planning permission.

A proposed €30 million retail development will not impact on the commercial heart of a county town, it has been claimed.

The Government was yesterday accused of "political sharp practice" for sanctioning, a week before the local elections, a €30m grant of taxpayers’ money to help fund the €70m regeneration of Pairc Uí Chaoimh in Cork.

A decision on whether to give the go-ahead to plans for a controversial incinerator in Co Cork has been pushed out for the sixth time by the planning authority.

Local residents in the Cork village of Watergrasshill have emerged victorious in a planning row over a telecommunications mast located within a few metres of their homes.

A major wind farm straddling the uplands of the Cork-Kerry border, across 32 townlands, has been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála.

A High Court challenge has been taken over An Bord Pleanála's permission for construction of 245 apartments and a childcare facility on part of the former premier Dairies site in Dublin.

A controversial Starbucks outlet on Cork city’s main street has closed after a three-year planning battle.

PARENTS of pupils at a Waterford primary school say they’re going to appeal a decision by the local council to grant retention for a mobile phone mast located within 180 metres from the junior infants’ classroom.

The way has finally been cleared for the construction of 147 social and affordable homes on Cork’s northside on county land earmarked for transfer to the city.

Why some of the data included as part of Indaver Ireland’s application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy appears identical to a 2008 application by another company for an entirely different facility in Co Meath remained a mystery yesterday on the final day of an oral hearing into the proposed project.

MILLIONAIRE businessman and leading Fianna Fáil supporter, Jim Mansfield, has admitted he was “technically wrong” to begin construction work on a €50m conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex in south-west Dublin without fully-authorised planning permission.

THE breakthrough natural energy project launched by Spirit of Ireland last month has received an “overwhelming” response from the public.

Residents in the Farranlea Road area of Cork City have challenged a decision of Cork City Council to grant planning permission for a large-scale, student accommodation complex on the grounds of a former warehouse.