A total of 90 new jobs have been announced by firms in Dublin, Cork, Clare and Galway this morning.

Latest: Archaeologist Avril Purcell said there were no recorded monuments listed in the Record of Monuments and Places within the proposed development site for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, writes Catherine Shanahan.

HITTING an international market with a world-class property bristling with security features on the day the US attacked Iraq may be a blow to the best-laid sales plans of the French owners of an Irish mansion.

TALKS are at an advanced stage for the development of a third new private hospital in Limerick.

THE ESB has bowed to pressure and a lowered a critical water level at its dams on the River Lee in the hope of reducing flood risk.

Ireland's first Center Parcs holiday resort has been given final approval by planners.

A primary school has brought a High Court challenge to planning permission for Ireland's first supervised heroin injection facility.

Temple Bar residents, led by author and former Irish Times journalist Frank McDonald, have succeeded in blocking plans for a four-storey student accommodation block in the area.

FOLLOWING the recent landslide in north Mayo, it is not surprising that fresh controversy has erupted among local residents, fishermen, small farmers and politicians in the wake of new moves by Shell to get planning permission to build a gas terminal in the area.

CORK’S new homes market is about to surge - but prices are still expected to grow by up to 10% during 2003.

A Dublin-based renewable energy company is seeking a foreshore licence to assess the suitability of two offshore wind farm sites in Irish waters.

A Fianna Fáil candidate blamed a “media witchunt” on his family for pulling out of the forthcoming Meath by-election, it emerged tonight.

LONG-DISTANCE farming wasn’t what Bernadette and Gerald Sheehan had in mind when they bought 160 acres of land in coastal west Cork 10 years ago.

Ikea has grown into a global brand by tapping into customers’ fondness for DIY and, as its founder Ingvar Kamprad quits the board, the flatpack giant is looking to carve out an even bigger slice of the market, writes Kyran FitzGerald

THE presence of an important wetland habitat for migratory birds by the N25 road and a commuter rail line has generated the sales and marketing motto for Cork’s latest new homes development to launch this year: Harper’s Creek invites house hunters to “Come home to Glounthaune”.

It was once a quiet rural village with a one-sided main street. But following the opening of retail giant Tesco’s latest Irish store in Ballincollig, Co Cork, yesterday, the town on the western outskirts of Cork City now boasts one of the widest retail choices of any town in Ireland.