While it sticks rigidly to best practice in its operations and avoids environmental issues that plague other sites, Bottlehill landfill has serious problems, writes Claire O’Sullivan

City and county councils are biased in favour of granting planning permission to developments due to the revenues completed projects bring in, a new report concludes.

CROKE PARK will be unavailable for next year’s prestigious World Handball Championships because of its handball centre’s protracted planning permission process.

AMID growing concern about the delays in moving ahead with a €500 million project on the Shannon estuary, senior government figures have been asked to get involved.

IT HAS emerged that Cork is to the forefront of an EU drive to create “Motorways of the Seas”, with the aim of reducing pollution and container transport costs.

UP TO 1,200 jobs for Waterford have been promised by the backers of a huge urban development, which was yesterday given permission by An Bord Pleanála.

THE Government drive to encourage women to breastfeed could be jeopardised if the Indaver Ireland proposal for a hazardous waste incinerator goes ahead in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

WHAT is it about a river?

We’ve done our bit — now it’s up to the minister, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

West Cork group lodges appeal against council planning decision

A YOUNG father has slated the planning process after Bórd Pleanala over-ruled one of its senior inspectors and rejected a simple house extension.

STATISTICS, and widely differing ones at that, were thrown around like confetti yesterday as opposing sides at a hearing on a controversial superdump tried to gain the upper hand.

A decision about how to permanently memorialise victims of institutional child abuse has still not been made by the Department of Education five years after a planning setback — and nearly a decade since it was recommended in the landmark Ryan Report.