The Cabinet has given the green light for a €280m upgrade of the N22 Cork-Kerry road, including the long-awaited Macroom bypass.

The proposed Cork-Limerick M20 motorway would not only recoup the State’s investment but double it if the project was given the green light, the Government’s original research shows.

Councillors in Kerry have voted to defy national guidelines on planning by permitting access to housing alongside a number of busy national roadways.

Cork county councillors will send a blunt “hands off” message to a minister that they won’t tolerate him interfering in their decision to ban industrial incinerators in certain areas.

The site for a “super” sewage treatment plant will be revealed today.

Eight years ago councillors designated iconic places such as Ballybunion as being of “no scenic importance” and therefore suitable for wind energy development.

A decision on the granting of a controversial license to Irish Cement, which would allow the company to burn alternative fuels, including used tyres, has been delayed due to a long list of objections from the public.

A Gaeltacht town is about to open its 30th pub and continues to buck the trend in hard-hit rural Ireland.

WILL an out-of town developer move far enough south to take on the redevelopment of the Dunkathel estate - and to outbid the handful of locals keen to get their hands on a site for a c300 house scheme plus luxury hotel?

A large Victorian-style mansion in south Dublin acquired for €4.35m three years ago is to be demolished to make way for an even larger luxury home, despite opposition from a community group and some local residents.

A former League of Ireland football ground is in line to become an office and commercial development, if a recent application to Cork County Council succeeds.

A striking 15-storey glass-fronted office tower in Cork city centre will enhance the city’s skyline and not impact significantly on important views, An Bórd Pleanála said as it upheld planning for the €20m project.

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set to proceed with a new project on Cork City’s Parnell Place after an objection lodged with the planning watchdog was withdrawn.

Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe tells how the proposed Foynes-Limerick road scheme may, after years of frustration, offer relief of a bypass for the town Adare.

Owen O’Callaghan is one of the few property developers who is still trading successfully five years after the property market first fell off a cliff.