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

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

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.

West Cork group lodges appeal against council planning decision

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.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar said yesterday it was a “great regret and a great tragedy for the country” that the planned building of the new national children’s hospital took so long.

WHAT is it about a river?