Freshly Chopped is facing closure of one of its flagship outlets after it was refused retention planning permission for its branch on Dublin’s Grafton St.

There are hopes work can soon commence on upgrading one of the country’s top tourist routes, a project that would also include cycleways.

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

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The withdrawn plans for a major new office complex on Cork’s Albert Quay have been replaced with a new application from joint developers BAM Property Ltd & Progressive Commercial Construction Ltd.

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 new multiplex cinema is to open in Killarney, Co Kery on the former site of one of the town’s best-known hotels.

The Government has not ruled out changing the planning laws to allow it override the Bord Pleanála decision on the hospital.

Two friends have decided on a novel way of raising funds for an organisation trying to prevent a €160m incinerator being built in Cork Harbour.

MANAGEMENT at the Port of Cork will have to wait a little longer to find out if they can proceed with a new €226 million container terminal, after An Bord Pleanála postponed a decision due yesterday.

Developer Johnny Ronan’s development group has stated that it is ‘bewildered’ and ‘disappointed’ by the Bord Pleanála decision to refuse planning permission for its 22 storey tower at George's Quay in Dublin.

Plans for a solar farm in east Cork are being challenged by residents who claim it will lead to the industrialisation of a rural setting, writes Seán McCárthaigh    

Council may give lease to firm operating proposed incinerator

The head of Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has said there will be a demand for skilled young craftspeople as the economy recovers.

The major extension proposed for the Bon Secours Hospital, in Cork City, has been approved by An Bord Pleanála.

The announcement came after Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, finally agreed that his department would co-fund the redesign of the weir in Fermoy.