Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a wind farm in east Cork for the second time in two years.

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.

AN Bord Pleanála is rarely given to hyperbole, but remarks by its spokesperson, in the wake of yet another deferment of a decision on an incinerator in the Cork harbour area, is straight out of the Donald Trump book of quotable quotes.

The Green Party is criticising Dublin City Council as a stand-off develops over the controversial waste incinerator planned for the Poolbeg area.

BONO has received approval for a €150 million remodelling of his Dublin hotel that will triple the property’s size and top it with a panoramic glass bar.

AN oral hearing to discuss objections to a planned super casino in Tipperary is set to take place on March 8.

AN BORD Pleanála has resigned itself to writing-off the state’s claim over houses at two Dublin developments because of clerical errors.

A sum of €4.35m, set aside this year by the National Roads Authority (NRA) for upgrading the N86 Tralee to Dingle road, will now be spent in another part of the country.

Irish Cement has launched a High Court challenge against an order allowing the compulsory purchase of its lands by the harbour at Foynes, Co Limerick.

A €65m scheme to radically widen and straighten a large section of a narrow road between Dingle and Tralee will have to go back to the drawing board, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

Housing charity Threshold has hit out at co-living proposals following An Bord Pleanála's decision to block one of the controversial developments.

The developers of the proposed student apartment complex overlooking the Lough in Cork city have started discussions with An Bord Pleanála with a view to increasing the number of apartments in the development.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned a Cork City Council vote and granted planning permission for a retail centre, including an off-licence, in a business park near CIT.

A controversial plan to build an 83-bed hotel and office blocks on a convent site near the Rock of Cashel has been refused planning permission, it emerged today.

The National Roads Authority and Cork County Council have jointly lodged an application with An Bord Pleanála for a €80m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange.

The Government is facing calls to change laws to ban co-living units and stop them becoming "the norm" after a divisive "box apartment" development with rents of up to €1,300 a month was given the green light.

Plans for more than 1,400 new homes in east Cork were turned down due to infrastructure deficits.

The Mater Hospital claims it remains the best site for the location of a national children’s hospital after it unveiled plans for a redesign of the original project which was unexpectedly rejected by An Bord Pleanála last February.