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.

The Government is to be asked to prevent the further building of solar energy farms in County Cork until proper guidelines are put in place for their design and operation.

Property Industry Ireland (PII) has called for the Vat rate on houses to be cut from 13.5% to 9% for two years in order to address the “acute” lack of supply of affordable owner-occupied, rental, and social housing.

A new education/arts use is being pencilled in for a high profile Cork city centre building by the proposed events centre/Brewery Quarter, which is being sold for well over €1 million.

KILLARNEY Town Council has decided to rezone a controversial five-acre site, owned by the multi-millionaire McShain family, to allow for a luxury housing development.

So that’s nearly Saturday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The chief executive of one of the biggest construction companies in New York, and which is behind a number of projects in Ireland, has hit out at the influence of holiday-home owners in South Kerry getting “to dictate” what the true local community needs and deserves.

Communities in the south-west are being ripped apart by the march of wind turbines into townlands, but a local authority says its hands are tied due to lack of firm legislation.

The war of words in the National Maternity Hospital row grew more entrenched over the weekend, as both sides accused the other of peddling mistruths.

The Port of Cork is set to put the city’s historic Custom House on the market in the coming weeks as it advances plans to relocate to Ringaskiddy.

A parish priest is among those disappointed over the refusal of planning permission for the first privately operated graveyard in Cork.

Planning permission is being sought to build supermarkets on two former textile factories in an east Cork town.

The campaign to save a residential green in the western suburbs of Cork from development is going to the Supreme Court.