The Irish arm of retail giant Tesco is attempting to slow the store expansion of German rivals Aldi and Lidl here.

Two student accommodation schemes given planning permission in Dublin could free up rental space for almost 500 people in the capital.

AN ORAL hearing into a proposed animal rendering plant in Tipperary which would be located close to a world-famous, horse-training establishment will get under way next Tuesday.

A proposed €180m motorway linking Cork City to Ringaskiddy will be “going into the bedrooms” of residents living along the route, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin told a planning hearing yesterday.

Planning permission has been secured for a new primary school in Douglas, despite opposition from some local residents and a pitch and putt club.

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A woman whose family has been locked in a right-of-way row with a local sports club interrupted Mass on Easter Sunday to voice her concerns over the saga.

OBJECTIONS against a €60 million investment on Cork city’s northside, at the old Sunbeam Wolsey site, have been rejected by An Bord Pleanála, clearing the way for a development which can cater for up to 3,000 jobs.

The decision by Cork County Council to proceed with a €6 million road upgrade project in Glanmire is shocking and calls into question the council’s priorities and loyalties (Irish Examiner, October 23).

MOVES to build a private hospital and to relocate the Enable Ireland services in Cork city took a significant step forward yesterday.

THE proposed route of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara was chosen after extensive public consultation involving some four thousand people and culminating in a 28-day oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála, the High Court was told yesterday.

PARTS of the multi-billion euro regeneration of Cork’s docklands could be delayed by the Ringaskiddy decision.

ROGER COTTRELL’S views (Irish Examiner letters, November 24) on American neocons, the vested interests of oil multinationals and end-time thinking are vehemently expressed.

CORK County Council has given the green light to a €400 million redevelopment of Ballincollig, the biggest planning permission ever granted by the local authority.

THE number of houses in the Gaeltacht reserved for Irish speakers is to be linked to the percentage of those who speak the language, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

I READ, with great care, the amazing full-page advert taken out in the national press by the NRA on the M3/Tara controversy which invited people to “come to their own conclusions”. I have.

Dublin Chamber of Commerce has today welcomed Government plans to invest billions in the city's transport network, but warned that construction involved could cause widespread disruption.