A BLUEPRINT for the multi-billion euro redevelopment of Cork’s north docks area, that includes 1,500 new homes and a 5,000-seat national events centre, was launched yesterday.

FOR the next 10 years sheep will graze on land that was by now supposed to be the imminent home for a new Silicon Valley-style industrial campus.

An environmentalist who lost his court challenge to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today had legal costs of up to €600,000 awarded against him.

New evidence has revealed underground electricity cables running through a seaside town could increase the risk of childhood leukaemia, campaigners claimed today.

A hospital foundation has acquired a new premises for its dedicated cancer care centre in Cork city after a planning setback delayed the project last year.

The Irish Hotels Federation is attempting to block a large student accommodation facility in Cork being rented out on a short-term basis to tourists.

Two peat extraction firms have been refused permission to appeal a significant finding their activities are no longer exempt development.

AN BÓRD Pleanála has enough evidence to confirm a contentious compulsory purchase order (CPO) on 10 hectares of prime land in Cork’s docklands, a local authority said yesterday.

Residents of a Co Cork village are shocked at revelations that 40,000 tonnes of incinerator ash could be buried every year at an unused landfill on their doorstep.

It was one of the signature deals of the boom.

THE upland countryside where the counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick meet continues to be a place where rare and threatened species of wildlife can still be found.

THE saga surrounding the building of golf links in sensitive dune and coastal areas continues, amid concerns about damage to a fragile environment and wildlife habitat.

First-time buyers are to get up to €10,000 in a tax rebate as part of Government plans to reheat the property market.

Irish Residential Property REIT (I.RES) has bought an apartment block in the Grand Canal Dock area of Dublin for €50.1m from Brehon Capital Partners and Midwest Holding.

THE Government has given the green light to create plans for the first purpose-built town in Munster.