The Government has insisted it remains 100% committed to the long-awaited national children’s hospital as it ordered experts to explain why planners rejected the Mater site.

Energy giant Shell has been told to re-route part of the controversial Corrib gas pipeline after planners today ruled it posed a safety risk.

Superstar Michael Flatley has withdrawn an application to build a home in Co Kerry.

A planning decision on a proposal to build a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour is due by Friday, almost two years behind schedule.

A PLANNING application for about 100 houses in Killorglin, Co Kerry, has been refused by An Bord Pleanála.

HOUSE-HUNTERS are facing a price increase this year because demand is outstripping supply, while a shortage of zoned land is adding to the difficulties.

Plans to increase Walsh Park’s capacity to 16,000 remain on course despite neither of Waterford’s two home games in the Munster senior hurling championship this summer selling out.

A second attempt to change the city development plan to facilitate a development at a business park in Cork City has been shot down.

IT WAS billed as David and Goliath — families against the powerful Port of Cork.

The issue of helicopter safety is one of the key reasons behind An Bord Pleanála’s decision to defer, for the fourth time, a decision on whether to give the go-ahead to a controversial incinerator in Co Cork.

The developers behind plans for the €100m revamp of one of Ireland’s oldest suburban shopping centres will have to reapply for planning permission after a ‘technical error’ in the application.

A CITY centre site for a €50 million events centre is being proposed to Cork City Council by developer Owen O’Callaghan.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was urged yesterday to appoint a single minister to take overall responsibility for the implementation of the heavily under-funded and grossly delayed National Development Plan (NDP).

A CHERISHED city green has been saved from development.

THE Garda security operation at the Shell refinery site in north Mayo has cost the State €8.1 million to date, according to new figures.

PLANNING permission is being sought for a second wind-farm in a controversial area earmarked for the conservation of the endangered hen harrier, it emerged yesterday.