The company planning to build a 240,000-tonne capacity incinerator in Cork Harbour has grossly underestimated the risk zone around its chimney stack, local campaigners have claimed.

Cork City Council is awaiting further information from developers of the proposed reworking for residential use of a former bakery site in Togher.

AN Bord Pleanála is under fire for giving the green light for a private hospital next to Cork University Hospital (CUH) against the advice of one of its own inspectors.

A NEW €226 million container terminal in Co Cork could affect the economic viability of ports in Waterford and Dublin, and result in traffic gridlock and more deaths on the roads.

Any delays to the €100m upgrade of the Dunkettle interchange will have “disastrous consequences” for Cork’s growth and have knock-on effects for key infrastructural and housing projects.

The owners of a site earmarked for Cork’s biggest-ever student accommodation development are facing a large tax bill, having lost a challenge to it being placed on a list of vacant sites.

A proposal to rezone sports land for an apartments scheme planned by a well-known Cork hurling club has been shot down.

Donal Hickey says erosion threatens the Kerry beach.

Local residents have blocked a large new housing development in Cloghroe amid concerns it was on a site prone to flooding as well as posing a road safety hazard.

An application to build the Dublin Metrolink rail line is unlikely to be made until 2020.

An online petition against the opening of the arcade launched by Mr Lane collected 1,607 names.

Ireland’s long-awaited National Children’s Hospital has been named after the phoenix, and like the mythical firebird, it has risen from its difficult past.

The Government and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) have been accused of “giving the two fingers” to the dairy industry as well as to hauliers and commuters.

Dublin and the surrounding region will need enough extra water to fill 330 Olympic-sized swimming pools every day on top of its existing supply to meet demand by 2050, Irish Water has warned.

COOLMORE yesterday launched a blistering attack on a proposed animal byproducts treatment plant, which would be located 3km from its Ballydoyle training facility, describing it as “the wrong use in the wrong location”.

The future of the proposed supervised injecting centre hangs in the balance as Merchants Quay Ireland considers whether or not to appeal a decision refusing it planning permission.