FRESH new house designs, but a return to an architectural feature from the past, the stair return, distinguish the new homes launched this weekend in The Beeches, Woodville, a mile from the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork.

Clare County Council recently voted through the incorporation of the Northern Distributor Road and the re-zoning of lands in south east Clare into the Clare County Development Plan.

A WEST CORK mother yesterday pleaded with ESB Networks not to erect overhead cables, linking a private wind farm, near her home.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney wants to lead this country out of its housing emergency and he has a number ideas to facilitate the fast-tracking of housing development, while keeping a robust planning process, writes Juno McEnroe

THE livelihoods of inshore fishermen will be wiped out if the Port of Cork builds a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

THE livelihoods of inshore fishermen will be wiped out if the Port of Cork builds a €226 million container terminal in the lower harbour, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

HE may be famous for his flying feet, but Michael Flatley’s latest steps may yet prevent the Lord of the Dance star from holding his lavish wedding at his Cork home.

DETAILED plans and Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) for a multi-million-euro road from Cork to Ringaskiddy are to be submitted to the board of the National Roads Authority (NRA) early next year.

A “process of engagement” is underway with developers BAM in relation to a vast rubble mound left sitting on a prime Cork city centre site following the demolition almost a year ago of a landmark office block, the head of Cork City Council has confirmed.

Prize money for the coming year will be maintained at the current levels, the Curragh redevelopment will return to the agenda and a new programme will be drawn up to attract new owners to Irish racing.

Beautiful countryside across two unspoilt valleys will be scarred by a controversial electricity transmission line snaking its way through West Cork, it has been claimed.

THERE may be light at the end of a long tunnel for a Cork school waiting almost a decade for new accommodation – while children have been taught in expensive prefabs.

A REPORT on the future of Dublin Port has raised serious doubts about the commercial benefits of the controversial proposal to relocate the country’s busiest cargo facility to a new site in north county Dublin.

MAJOR planning and banking bills have been passed by the Dáil in contentious circumstances.

PEOPLE power is the only thing that will force big businesses to lower their prices, according to one Meath woman who has already succeeded in getting cheaper grocery prices for her hometown.

THE Port of Cork has suffered a setback to its plans to open a €226 million container terminal at Ringaskiddy in 2011.

PASSENGERS at the congested Dublin Airport will see the benefit of €450 million of improvements as early as next year, airport bosses said last night.

THE Environmental Protection Agency has granted a licence for the country's first toxic waste incinerator, despite vehement opposition from environmental groups.