The Port of Cork has admitted it was involved in a serious incident last year, when dust from cargo being unloaded in Ringaskiddy clogged the air filters of a major pharmaceutical plant.

After almost a decade in the doldrums, renewed activity is expected across a number of fronts in Cork city’s docklands and quays in 2016, with knock-on effects on major sites downriver in Cork harbour including Marino Point and Ringaskiddy.

A 25-storey apartment tower is proposed for a Cork city centre site on Albert Quay.

The High Court has overturned, on consent, a planning permission for construction of 164 homes on the site of a disused hotel in Howth village.

Two separate High Court challenges have been brought over redevelopment works at the landmark Ormond Hotel building along Dublin's north quays.

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission to Vodafone to retain two masts at Moll’s Gap, a well-known viewing area and stop-off point between Killarney and Kenmare.

Latest: Managing Director of Indaver Ireland John Ahern has reiterated the need for the incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

EirGrid is insisting that its controversial new GridLink project cannot be located underground.

A group opposing plans to upgrade the M28 Ringaskiddy to Cork motorway have said there are "strong grounds" for seeking a judicial review.

Glenveagh Properties has secured a €22m land deal in the Cork suburb of Douglas bringing its total spend on sites here in 2018 to about €50m. The publicly listed company’s latest acquisition is another challenge to the dominance of Cork’s home building market by ‘local’ developers.

NOTHING stands still: not time, not the ground we stand on, and certainly not a city.