A group of Cork residents have not ruled out appealing the High Court’s decision to dismiss their challenge to the approval granted to a proposed motorway between Cork and Ringaskiddy.

Limerick civil engineering firm Roadbridge will co-partner Spanish giant FCC Construccion on the DAA’s €320m north runway project for Dublin Airport — with an extra €10m sweetener separately given by the authority to fund local community projects.

IT'S just as well that Dubya's attention was focused on blowing up balloons for his inauguration party yesterday, or he might have noticed that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was trying to slip a fast one by him.

MUNSTER Branch officials hope Cork City Council reconsider a decision to vote against the rezoning of lands inside Musgrave Park, the sale of which was to assist in the redevelopment of a new stadium.

It is in the gritty detail of difficult policy decisions that lies the ultimate test of character. In that regard, there is more going on this week than the main headlines indicate, writes Gerard Howlin

IN 2003, as the property market began to accelerate, a house and site on the Well Road, Douglas, Cork, went on the market at offers in excess of €500,000.

Shell Ireland has officially applied to the Government for permission to operate the controversial pipeline from the Corrib gas field off the coast of Mayo.

Ambitious goals will attract billions in investment, create thousands of jobs, and regenerate coastal communities, writes David Connolly.

Former Fianna Fáil minister Ray Burke today told the Mahon Tribunal he was never aware of any payments made to councillors during the rezoning of land in North Dublin.

Dublin City Council has told a company owned by developer, Johnny Ronan, to keep the noise down in its planned new ‘live-work’ venture at Mr Ronan’s luxury Embassy House in Dublin 4.

One of the country’s largest commercial and residential landlords is locked in a planning row with residents at Windmill Lane in Dublin’s docklands over a proposed change of use of its landmark building in a new business district.

The construction of apartments for 320 students near University College Cork has been approved, despite local opposition.

Permission has been granted to a couple by the High Court to bring a challenge to a 50-apartment development on school lands next to their home in Dalkey, Co Dublin.

Plans for the Civic Plaza at College Green in Dublin City Centre are to be discussed today.