While almost €18 million has been announced for road works in Kerry, a row has broken out as the vast bulk of the money has been allocated for improvement works in south and west Kerry.

A TYPING error on the public notice announcing Eirgrid’s intention to apply for planning permission to build the much-needed €200 million north-south electricity interconnector has led to the planning application being thrown out.

SENIOR design staff involved in the development of the long-awaited Waterford to Kilcullen dual carriageway say they hope to begin the first phase of the 64km route by this time next year.

THE O2 mobile phone company yesterday apologised to taxi drivers in Tralee for twice cutting off services at peak taxi business times recently.

MORE than 700 entries have been received by the promoters of a €280m development planned for Waterford city centre in a public competition to name the retail element of the scheme.

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

Strict security arrangements, including access cards, CCTV and visiting restrictions, are part of the management plan for a new student apartment complex proposed for Limerick city.

A dispute between a company of property developer and investor Michael O’Flynn and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council over a refusal of planning permission for a €75m residential development in south Dublin will be heard by the Commercial Court in May.

A perceived risk to the recently introduced white-tailed sea eagle is one of the main reasons by An Board Pleanála for turning down a proposed nine-turbine windfarm in theKerry-Cork border area near Kilgarvan.

Household waste from Cork city and county is being shipped out of Cork Port for incineration in the Netherlands and Sweden, where its used to generate electricity.

The Taoiseach, Tánaiste, and health minister have met to discuss the proposed location for the national children’s hospital.

The Government is to outline proposals for a planning tsar on recommendations from the damning Mahon Tribunal report.

The council has refused planning permission to an application by the owners of the proposed new facility at the corner of Harcourt Street and Montague Street for lifting a condition which restricts its opening hours to

We may have lost this battle, but the war isn’t over yet.

Cork County Council members are questioning the cost of a new design for the proposed Cork-Limerick motorway and the likely delay in securing planning, again, for the M20 route.

Planners insist “now is the time” to rubberstamp blue-prints for a new town on the outskirts of Cork City, warning the project founder they may “miss the boat” if the project is left until the economy improves.

The deadline for deciding on whether to give the go-ahead to a controversial incinerator in Cork Harbour has been pushed out for the eighth time. It is one of the State’s longest-running planning sagas.

A leading TV sports broadcaster has warned it could close its Irish operations and move to the UK with the loss of 40 jobs as a result of a planning row.

Nothing in the environmental impact statement (EIS) accompanying Indaver Ireland’s planning application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy adequately explains the health impact it could have, according to a specialist in public health.