A Starbucks coffee shop has been given two months to remove signs from the 300-year-old building where it opened without planning permission in Cork city centre.

THE controversy over Deputy Kathleen Lynch’s representation on behalf of a convicted paedophile rapist again raises the issue of the value of political representations.

CONSULTANTS at Cork University Hospital (CUH) united yesterday to back controversial plans for a private co-located hospital on the CUH campus.

OBJECTORS to Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator have vowed to take their battle to the European Court if planning permission is granted for the project.

A site is still being sought in Dublin for a memorial to victims of institutional abuse, after a €31,000 spend on an earlier unsuccessful plan.

THE contrast between George Lee’s ‘Future Shock: End of Oil’ and the following programme, Questions and Answers (RTÉ 1, June 18), was both pronounced and scary.

WHY aren’t the people of Cork out in their thousands protesting against the draft licence which the EPA has granted Indaver for two incinerators in Cork harbour.

Two developers looking to address the shortage of third-level student accommodation in Dublin have had contrasting fortunes.

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

A new €14m engineering- focused campus is to be opened by Limerick Institute of Technology in a year’s time.

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.

There will be significant reform of the planning system despite a Department of Environment review finding no criminality or corruption across seven local authorities.

CONCERNS over flooding have led Bord Pleanála to refuse planning permission for a €80 million private hospital in Cork city.

The Port of Waterford is to seek a judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant planning permission for the €100m expansion of the Port of Cork.

CORK County Council is planning a significant road upgrade that will allow more than 1,200 homes to be built and provide a link to a new park-and-ride railway station.