Planning permission has been granted for a four-storey apartment block adjacent to Phoenix Park despite claims by the OPW that it would be “a visual blight” on this historic park.

The company behind Dublin’s Citywest and Kilkenny’s Mount Juliet hotels look set to proceed with a new project on Cork City’s Parnell Place after an objection lodged with the planning watchdog was withdrawn.

PEOPLE travelling to the first Ikea furniture store in the Republic will account for up to 12% of all vehicles using the already congested M50, according to the National Roads Authority.

A DEVELOPMENT tide has turned in Midleton’s favour in East Cork and now, possibly the best waterside site in the area is set for building on as a €20 million scheme goes on site.

There was intense pressure on Transport Minister Shane Ross to appoint a noise regulator for Dublin Airport even though officials knew accusations of a conflict of interest were certain to arise.

Work is due to start shortly on clearing gantry cranes and other scrap metal from a toxic dump in Cork harbour, as a prelude to making the site safe and transforming it into a public park with playing pitches.

Dublin residents living along the route of a planned €20m aviation-fuel pipeline to Dublin Airport have raised safety concerns.

An events centre in the heart of Cork City could play a major role in any strategy to revive the city centre, a planning expert has said.

A Limerick man appeared in court charged in connection with a burglary at the lakeside mansion owned by the son of Euromillions winner, Dolores McNamara.

A challenge to An Bord Pleanála's permission for a wind farm straddling the Laois-Kilkenny border is to be fast-tracked in the Commercial Court.

A significant upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange was first announced in 2011. Cost overruns to the €100m project, revealed by this paper last week, could seeit delayed by up to 18 months, which would mean the entire process will have taken more than a decade. Joe Leogue looks back at the long-awaited plan.

CHAMPAGNE corks were popping in Ballydoyle stables last night and across the wider Golden Vale as campaigners celebrated the decision by South Tipperary County Council to refuse planning permission for a controversial animal waste plant.

BUSINESS people in Kerry were yesterday urged to get behind a campaign to build a golf links, projected to create 65 jobs.

THREE-storey terraced and semi-detached houses in a courtyard site in Kinsale have just been released on the market this week and should create a bit of a stir in the gourmet town.

A BORD Pleanála oral hearing was yesterday told that the Oyster Bank at Ringaskiddy was the most suitable of three sites examined for the Port of Cork’s proposed new €226 million container and cargo terminal.

WHEN the GAA’s Management Committee and Central Council meet today they should take stock of the decisions they are being asked to make as regards the use of Croke Park in 2008 for games other than those promoted by the GAA.