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.

Here's all you need to know this morning.

A cyclists’ representative group has expressed concerns about the use of cycle lanes replacing hard shoulders on rural roads.

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.

A planning application for more than 230 houses in Cobh has been criticised by locals for its reliance on country roads for access.

It was indeed encouraging in this economic climate to read a good news story about Cork Harbour (Irish Examiner, Nov 14).

A HUGE city centre retail development has been given the go-ahead in Limerick. However, a sole objector may hold up the project indefinitely.

A CORK suburban development site which sold for a very strong €3.5m less than two years ago, has been quielty returned to the market, at a c €2m mark-up, according to sources.

COUNCILLORS forced a housing plan with a controversial entrance back to the drawing board last night.

Fast track planning permission is being sought this week for a 17-storey apartment tower, on Cork city’s South Link Road, on a compact site previously a rail track goods yard and sidings.

Your coverage on page one, and two-page spread on pages six and seven of the Irish Examiner (April 6) was excellent writing by Eoin English.

The promoters of a controversial new visitor centre proposed for the Dublin Mountain have claimed it will have no adverse impact on protected wildlife and habitats in the area.

After forensically outlining the scale of corruption at almost every level of political life, the Mahon Tribunal makes a series of recommendations which it says will “assist” in combating that corruption in the future.