OPPOSITION parties called on Health Minister Micheál Martin yesterday to stop "washing his hands" of incineration after An Bord Pleanála gave the go-ahead to the country's first toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Cork.

Dublin's first co-living housing block has been refused planning permission.

Cork County Council has lodged a number of applications with an Bord Pleanála and the Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government for a €10m project which it hopes will turn the country's most south-westerly island into a major tourist attraction.

Plans for new vehicular access point and expanded parking facilities at a school in Cloyne, Co Cork, have been approved despite objections from a number of local residents.

Adare village is set to continue as a major traffic snag on the Limerick/South West N21 route with confirmation that the National Roads Authority (NRA) has shot down a request by Limerick County Council to activate a third bypass plan.

Profits before tax at the country’s largest hotel, the Citywest in Dublin, last year declined sharply by 79% to €316,634.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to back Cork County Council in insisting on the spirit, and the law, of the concept of social housing is to be welcomed as a major breakthrough.

The future of a tourist attraction in Killarney is uncertain after its owners failed to secure planning permission for the venue.

Here is a timeline of events regarding the Indaver incinerator from 2001 to 2018.

UCC bosses are to resubmit plans for a multi-million euro 200-student outreach centre at the Mardyke, despite their shock at having the project turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

RESIDENTS on a Shannon Airport flight path have discovered they were barking up the wrong tree when they objected to planned new dog kennels.

Attempts to preserve Dublin’s best-known shopping streets for high-end retail outlets are being reinforced with a recent decision by the planning authorities to reject plans for a doughnut shop on O’Connell St.