Plans for a new hotel in the Markets area of Dublin’s north inner city by one of Northern Ireland’s leading hotel groups have been rejected.

ONE of Shell’s partners in the €2.5 billion Corrib Gas project has conceded that gas will not now be brought ashore until 2014.

A High Court judge has refused to allow a number of local residents appeal his decision rejecting their challenge to permission for a windfarm development in Co Cork.

A significant part of the Port of Cork’s €100m redevelopment plan for Ringaskiddy could go ahead without a major upgrading of either the Dunkettle interchange or the N28 national primary road.

THE Competition Authority was called on to carry out an urgent investigation into the spiralling cost of diesel yesterday.

FOR the last six years, I have been involved in trying to help contain the effects of current policies regarding housing development in my area of Co Wexford - Murrintown/Mayglass.

Cork’s city manager has invited the private sector to pitch for public funding in a bid to secure the development of a large-scale events centre in the city.

A number of legal challenges aimed at quashing consents for the construction of sections of Corrib gas onshore pipeline have been settled.

Tesco Ireland has temporarily put the brakes on German discounter Aldi’s Irish expansion plans.

A High Court date has been set for a challenge by environmental lobby group CHASE to An Bord Pleanála's decision to grant planning permission for an incinerator in Cork Harbour.

OBJECTORS to the country’s first household waste incinerator are to continue their fight in the courts after An Bord Pleanála cleared the construction of the facility yesterday.

The Irish Heart Foundation (IHF) has lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála against plans to develop a large, fast-food, drive-thru restaurant close to a primary school in north Dublin.

Progressive Commercial Construction’s application for a major office development on Cork’s Albert Quay has been withdrawn.

A number of residents’ associations are to lodge objections against one of the biggest housing projects ever proposed in Co Cork.

A US waste management company is planning to build a major facility here in the first project of its kind to seek permission under the new fast-track planning procedure for large-scale infrastructure.

IT would seem that “archaeological significance” carries a different meaning in different areas of this little island.

TARA, here I am. I have come all the way from Kerry to be with you before the vultures, with bulldozers and JCBs, open your lower belly. They are impatient to inflict the wounds.

The High Court has said it will hear opposing arguments from the State and An Bord Pleanala before deciding whether to grant leave to An Taisce and two Co Mayo residents to bring judicial review actions aimed at quashing permission for the gas pipeline linked to the Corrib gas field.