UP TO 460 jobs could be created in North Tipperary, South Offaly and Clare with the development of two new M7 motorway services facilities in Birdhill and Moneygall and the securing of a US contract by a Shannon firm.

ENNIS Town Council has put on hold contentious plans for a €40 million retail park.

IT is almost certain that the country’s first commercial toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork will be granted a waste disposal licence by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it emerged yesterday.

Two appeals to An Bord Pleanála will delay the start of the €50m regeneration of the derelict former Capitol cinema site in Cork City by at least four months.

Communities around the country have taken on potential developments, writes Michael Clifford

Plans will be unveiled today for over 100 new homes which will be built on Cork’s northside as part of one of the largest housing regeneration projects in the country.

Plans for a €150m extension at Liffey Valley shopping centre have been refused as it would worsen traffic congestion on Dublin’s M50.

A JOBS boost for Co Clare was yesterday thrown into doubt after a claim that a planning decision giving a €4 million retail project the go-ahead is “illegal”.

ALMOST 50 objections, including a number from surf clubs across the country, have been lodged against Clare County Council’s plan to construct a €6 million pier at Doolin.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley is now reportedly calling for increased road tax on vehicles over 1600cc in an unimaginative attempt to discourage people from using larger vehicles while he at the same time supports his Government’s equally unenlightened roads programme.

A new 40-bed modular unit designed to alleviate pressure at one of the country's most overcrowded hospitals could be open by next spring after planning permission was secured for the development.