The national children’s hospital proposed for St James’s in Dublin could run into IT and planning trouble but the Government has insisted it is the best choice of location.

The sale of 370 acres at Hangman’s Point, Kinsale, Co Cork, to Tupperware tycoon Richard Goings has finally closed the lid on a protracted development sage on the sensitive coastal site.

BUSINESS and tourism interests have warned of a “negative impact” for an east Cork town where planning was granted for a sludge treatment plant.

THE former county manager of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (DLRCC) has, within months of retiring, taken up a senior position with a development company behind a controversial high-rise development in south Dublin, the Dáil was told last night.

AN astonishing 7,000 people signed a petition supporting it, and now it appears the people of Kanturk are going to get their way.

THERE is great concern at the way new bypass roads and motorways are being introduced. The system is dividing communities and parishes and is turning them against each other.

Gardai have interviewed “a substantial number of witnesses” in its investigation into bogus letters for a planned €10m Supermac’s motorway forecourt outside Ennis.

Ambulances are called to accidents on the Cork-Limerick road roughly once every week on average, according to HSE figures.

The self-styled ‘Ronaldo’ of the Irish property scene, Greg Kavanagh is not giving up in his battle for a contentious €15m development proceeding at Mount Merrion in south Dublin.

The expert group charged with reviewing Cork’s local government will have access to all documents compiled by the committee that recommended the controversial merger of the city and county councils.

The construction of 16 social houses in the “middle” of an existing private estate will lead to new council tenants being “stigmatised”, according to a former Fianna Fáil mayor of Limerick.

A 13-hectare public park in Cork Harbour, with a 3km circuit for walking and running, forms part of a €40m clean-up plan for one of the State’s worst environmental disaster zones.