The students and teachers of Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn are delighted to be finally moving into their very first bricks and mortar school, after spending more than two decades in prefabs in an overflow carpark of Brian Dillons GAA club, writes Jess Casey.

Three separate High Court challenges are being brought against planning permission for 161 apartments and townhouses on part of a GAA grounds in south Dublin.

Nama has installed receivers to take control of a suite of companies run by a publicity-shy property investor once regarded one of the country’s most ambitious boom-time speculators.

Objectors to the Port of Cork’s plans for a €100m expansion of its terminal in Ringaskiddy have expressed shock and anger at a revelation that the National Roads Authority does not know when it will upgrade roads to service the development.

More than 30 new sites in Cork City have been declared derelict as part of a concerted effort to tackle dereliction in the city.

The Cabinet is to meet to discuss the National Children’s Hospital debacle tomorrow amid growing opposition to downsizing the facility and increasing evidence of the crisis within existing paediatric services.

SIX professors of paediatrics opposed to the selection of the Mater Hospital as the site for a new national children’s hospital have publicly challenged the right of their representative body to say it endorses the project.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a €250 million co-location hospital in Cork were approved last night.

BROADCASTER Eamon Dunphy has been censured by broadcasting watchdogs for an on-air tirade against the Health Service Executive (HSE).