Communities are hitting back at a surge in solar farm construction spreading across the country with no specific planning guidelines in place to regulate them.

The King’s Highway issue has been raised in a legal case that is a shining example of the problems between developers and opponents of wind farms, writes Michael Clifford.

Waste management company Indaver is in talks with Cork County Council to bury, in a mothballed landfill site, up to 40,000 tonnes of ash yearly from a proposed €160m controversial incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

The backers of a proposed new micro-distillery on the Ring of Kerry have suffered a setback after being hit with an even higher development levy after appealing the original sum.

An elected member of Cork County Council has failed in her attempt to block the development of a large apartment block in Passage West.

THE Government must take a long-term view and invest in vital infrastructure to help regenerate Cork’s docklands, a respected developer said last night.

That there will soon be more plastic than fish in the sea doesn’t even take into account the inevitable decline in fish stocks, writes Victoria White.

In 2012 when the topic of housing in Ireland came up for discussion, the terms ‘negative equity’ and ‘ghost estate’ were bandied about with numbing frequency.

“The council decision to allow the continued demolition of the stadium is a breach of planning and it appears the GAA now have the freedom to do what they choose."

Campaigners opposed to a controversial incinerator on the south shore of Dublin bay today claimed the coalition Government was split on the issue.

Many people will celebrate the new year tonight, but others in rural communities are living in a state of anxiety about what 2019 will bring.