Unknown people are filing fake planning application appeals from individuals "who don't exist" in order to block new developments in parts of the country, a TD has claimed.

The agriculture minister, who has an office on one of the country’s worst bottlenecks, has met with road building chiefs amid fears work on the long-awaited €160m N22 bypass could be delayed by up to five years.

The government is considering new measures in the budget to inject “adrenaline” into the apartment building sector in a bid to boost housing supply.

The Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has reportedly offered to pay the cost of speeding up roadworks on the M50 motorway in Dublin.

Campaigners opposed to a new motorway in Cork say they have raised thousands of euro towards a legal challenge against the road but that more donations will be required to meet the costs of the action.

WILMOUNT Terrace in Cobh has a crow’s nest perch above Cork harbour - and that’s perhaps part of the reason why the daughter of a long-serving Cork harbour pilot lived at this address for many years.

THE Port of Cork yesterday rubbished a rival port’s objection to its plans to build a €226 million container and cargo terminal at Ringaskiddy in Co Cork.

Planners have given the green light for a €50m, nine-storey office block which could deliver up to 2,000 jobs for Cork city.

An opponent of Apple’s stalled plans for a data centre in Co Galway has failed to prevent online giant Amazon securing planning permission for the first phase of its plans for a €1bn data centre in north-west Dublin.