Nama bosses have warned Finance Minister Michael Noonan they must have flexibility in deciding pay levels for key staff, if the agency is to deliver its €4.5bn house building programme.

It is hoped that revised plans for a €180m road between Cork and Ringaskiddy will ease the fears of some residents’ associations who expressed major concerns with the initial blueprint when it was launched in October.

A government minister has defended the pre-election sod turning on the stalled €53m Cork event centre despite no building work on site four months on.

A site near Dublin Airport has been chosen for a sewage treatment plant, but campaigners have vowed to continue their fight against the proposed facility.

Cork GAA coffers will contribute €20m to the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh, board secretary Frank Murphy has revealed.

Nama has appointed a statutory receiver to assets belonging to Limerick-based property companies controlled by developers Joe Hanrahan and John Shee.

Planning permission has been refused for more than 400 homes in Wexford.

Some 19 years after a national children’s hospital was first mooted, and three years after the first deadline to build it was missed, St James’s has become the project’s site.

A proposed new tourist facility on an island off the Cork coast has been likened to a “space station” by one of two environmental groups opposed to the project.

NOW you see them, now you don’t — these two adjoining bungalows pictured right are about to be flattened, and replaced by separate, detached brand new homes.

Environmental activists tonight claimed almighty floods proved plans for a 100,000 tonne toxic burner in Cork harbour were awash with flaws.

THE redevelopment of a public pier in Doolin is crucial to the tourist industry in the Clare village.

Environmental activists fighting plans for a toxic burner in Cork harbour today claimed the Government had washed its hands of local people’s health.