New fast-track planning laws have been published in a bid to avoid significant delays.

The Taoiseach has defended the State’s €7m legal bill in the €14bn Apple tax case insisting Ireland must defend its international reputation from suggestions it’s a tax haven.

Christian Brothers College (CBC), one of Cork’s best-known fee-paying schools, has been given the go-ahead for a €12.5m development at its Sidney Hill campus.

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

Plans have been lodged for an extension to two units at the Douglas Court Shopping Centre in Cork, above.

The IFA has warned Eirgrid’s plans for a €500m power line connecting Cork, Kildare and Wexford will cause significant disturbance for many landowners and stressed the company must engage fully with people along the route to avoid protests.

A BEEHIVE is how the newest residential scheme in Kinsale, Compass Quay, looked last week.

The proposed snail farm or heliculture business was intended to develop snail-based products, including premium organic snail meat, snail egg caviar and snail slime secretion.

Residents of Cork’s lower harbour have “no faith” in Indaver to ensure a proposed incinerator would be safe in the event of an explosion or fire.

Defiant residents in a coastal commuter town have threatened to disrupt work on one of the country’s largest energy projects over safety concerns.

The rush by developers to build apartments in Dublin and other large urban areas continues with applications for over 1,200 apartments put before An Bord Pleanala over four days.

Residents of a planned upmarket apartment block development in Foxrock in south Dublin will able to avail of ‘pay as you go driving’ from five shared GoCar vehicles to be based at the address.