Measures to stop land hoarding, create a more efficient planning system, and greater access to information, would start addressing the issue, writes Kieran Rose

We call on the Government to review Irish energy policy in light of recent changes in renewable power technologies. 

A widow became emotional yesterday as she explained how she would become “a prisoner” in her own home if plans for a €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway were given the green light.

A waste management firm has been told to cover the costs incurred by a group opposed to its incineration plans after the High Court ruled its behaviour during a legal action amounted to abuse of process.

The wife of billionaire Dermot Desmond has lost her planning battle with model and next door neighbour, Karen Reihill, at one of Dublin 4’s most sought after addresses at Ailesbury Road.

A rare species of bat, as well as the soprano pipistrelle bat, may hold up development of the €180m Project Opera development in Limerick.

Visionary or misguided, the €1.5bn plans for Ballsbridge are dead in the water, writes Seán McCárthaigh.

A decision on the modifications proposed to part of the Brewery Quarter events centre complex in Cork’s inner city is due within weeks.

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.

The Irish Planning Institute (IPI) — the all-island body for professional planners engaged in physical, spatial and environmental planning in Ireland — has announced the election of four new members as Fellows at the institute’s annual Autumn Planning Conference.

LIMERICK politicians last night voted through one of the most controversial land zonings outside of Dublin in the face of dire warnings of the legal risk they were taking for themselves and Limerick County Council.

PORTLAOISE GAA club officials insist they are not looking for a €6.5m “bailout” from Croke Park and have described as premature reports that the Cork-based developers due to buy their grounds have pulled out of the deal.

THE Shannon Estuary is on the threshold of a new industrial dawn which promises to transform the entire industrial aspect of the Mid-West and Kerry.