Campaigners opposed to a plastics factory for the West Cork town of Skibbereen have been granted an application for a judicial review of the decision to allow it to proceed.

Controversial plans to build a waste-to-energy incinerator in Ringaskiddy have been met with ''anger and frustration'' today.

SET out at the far, suburban-end of the Boreenmanna Road, in Cork city, is Corvalley Court – with the rugby playing pitches of Cork Constitution behind, and the GAA pitch at Pairc Uí Rinn (Christy Ring) almost alongside.

A dispute over a planned new Aldi supermarket in Laytown, Co Meath, has come before the High Court.

OBJECTORS opposing the building of a motorway close to the Hill of Tara have pledged to take a series of legal challenges to ensure the route is changed.

AN TAISCE has put the brakes on a high priority €12m water supply scheme in West Cork.

RESIDENTS fighting multi-million euro plans to build on the former home of a leading GAA club have raised several concerns just days before a crucial decision by the state’s planning appeals board.

PLANNING corruption has created hundreds of thousands of victims, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said yesterday, pointing an accusing finger at the Taoiseach for failing to sanction Fianna Fáil members involved.

WORK on redeveloping the RDS complex at Ballsbridge at a cost of €100 million will start shortly and will be completed in phases over ten years, it was confirmed at the opening of the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show yesterday.

Indaver, with the knowledge of Environment Ministers Alan Kelly and Paudie Coffey, is again attempting to foist its outdated, dirty incinerators on Cork Harbour.