So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

KERRY County Council yesterday gave the all-clear for the biggest-ever wind farm in the county, to be developed at a cost of €70m.

Additional car and bus parking to cater for the large numbers of visitors to Muckross House, a protected area one of the southwest’s most popular tourist attractions in the 10,000-hectare Killarney National Park has been given the go-ahead.

Planning permission is being sought for more than 1,200 housing units in Dublin and Kildare.

Cork City’s formerly controversial Stapleton House finally looks fit for purpose, having lain empty since built over a decade ago.

Plans for a 34-storey Cork city centre hotel, which would become Ireland’s tallest tower and twice the height of the 17-storey Elysian building, are finally revealed today by New York-based Irish developers.

A new energy strategy for Kerry will see whole swathes of the county earmarked for windfarms — but not in top scenic areas.

PLANS for a new gaelscoil which have split a community on Cork’s northside have been hit with another planning difficulty.

THE company developing a controversial incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin has expressed concern at plans by the Government to introduce legislation that it claims would impose unfair levies on operators of waste-to-energy plants.

A KERRY County Council decision to turn down a planning application for a shopping development in Castleisland could cost the town 90 jobs, it was claimed yesterday.

CONFUSION surrounded the fate of the controversial Poolbeg incinerator last night after Tánaiste Michael McDowell said the project had collapsed, only to be contradicted by Dublin City Council.

FEARS that a badly needed ring road for Tralee are being long-fingered by the National Roads Authority (NRA) have been voiced by Kerry county engineer Tom Curran.

Six white-tailed sea eagle chicks have flown from their nests in 2016, making it the most successful year yet for the reintroduced birds, project organisers have said.

A €10m heritage and visitor centre which will transform the site of education pioneer Nano Nagle’s first convent has been given the green light.

TAXPAYERS could save €250 million building a much shorter motorway which would link Limerick and Cork, a Bord Pleanála oral hearing has been told.

ANGRY residents at the site of the country’s first commercial toxic waste incinerator vowed last night to take their battle to the High Court.