The Cabinet will discuss the more than unfortunate fiasco surrounding the as yet unbuilt national children’s hospital today.

ISN’T it interesting to note that while your headline (November 21) proclaims the devastation wreaked on Cork by a “one-in-800 year flood”, An Bord Pleanála is considering the merits or otherwise of granting permission to construct two incinerators, one to burn hazardous waste and the other to burn non-hazardous waste, beside the shores of Cork harbour on a site prone to flooding on the basis of water levels reached in a one-in-100 year flood.

The Government is reportedly due to publish planned new legislation today aimed at fast-tracking major infrastructure projects.

A residents’ group has brought a legal challenge aimed at overturning Bord Pleanála’s grant of planning permission for a development of several wind turbines near their homes in Co Cork.

They were previously rejected by An Bord Pleanála after a legal battle.

An Bord Pleanala has warned that local authorities around the country may have to reconsider certain aspects of their development plans.

An Bord Pleanala has refused to give permission for the completion of a 6,000 seater convention centre at Citywest in Dublin.

CONSTRUCTION will begin next year on both the Waterford City bypass and the long-awaited Waterford to Dublin route, Transport Minister Martin Cullen has confirmed.

An Bord Pleanala is due to begin an oral hearing today into plans to redevelop Lansdowne Road as a new 50,000-seater stadium.

Heritage campaigners today backed a decision to block the building of a wind farm overlooking the pilgrimage island of Lough Derg in Co Donegal.

The approval of the Docklands Strategic Development Zone by Bord Pleanála could deliver additional housing for almost 5,800 people.