THERE are no plans to toll the major new dual carriageway link between Waterford and Kilcullen, according to those behind the project.

A Cork rugby club has lost an appeal to An Bord Pleanála against McDonald's over a dividing wall between their two properties.

The sometime scourge of plans by Trump Doonbeg and other developers has lost out on his own plans to extend the number of Airbnb style studio lettings at his protected Georgian Dublin property.

Contracts worth almost €2m have been signed to upgrade the Haulbowline Island bridges to facilitate the multi-million clean-up of the former Irish Steel toxic dump site.

The community group opposed to the building of an incinerator in Cork Harbour has claimed the application is invalid, due to a string of issues, including errors over the company name of the applicant, Indaver Ireland.

DOWN near Gobby Strand in Ringaskiddy yesterday, people nervously laughed when they heard Indaver general manager John Ahern say on radio that incinerators don’t harm your health.

Tallaght hospital is more suitable to house the new national children's hospital now than it was when first considered years ago, according to a former Vice Chairman of the Board of the hospital.

Judgement has been reserved at the Supreme Court on an appeal over whether An Bord Pleanála breached its obligations in how it approved the first phase of tech giant Apple’s planned €850m data centre in Co Galway.

An obstacle has been cleared for the amalgamation of the boys and girls national schools in Kanturk, Co Cork.

The country’s first supervised injecting centre (SIC) has been delayed, and could be pushed well into next year, if planning permission is needed.

Developer Michael O’Flynn confirmed he is taking advantage of the Government’s new ‘fast track planning’ laws to seek planning permission for his group’s largest house building plan since the economic recovery.

Minister for Health Simon Harris said he does not believe there is a need to revisit the November agreement which was supposed to pave the way for the transfer of the national maternity hospital to the campus of St Vincent’s University Hospital in Elm Park.

Cork city centre’s largest office scheme, Navigation Square, is now cleared for a €90m build commencement by the summer which could facilitate 3,000 jobs.