Planning permission has been granted for nearly 300 apartments in south Dublin.

HAVING observed the lack of regulations during the Celtic Tiger years it still makes me laugh, even today, every time I hear the term “regulated by the financial regulator” after one of our financial institutions’ adverts on radio or TV.

A CALL for a crackdown on illegal quarrying in Kerry was made yesterday, after it emerged six further quarries operating without permission had come to the county council’s attention.

Dublin Bus has said it has put forward recommendations "to allow for accessible public transport" at College Green.

The planned National Children's Hospital at St James's Hospital in Dublin is reported to be facing planning difficulties.

Up to 900 jobs could be created at Dublin Airport with the planned €130m development of a four star hotel and multi-storey car park linked directly to the airport’s new passenger terminal T2.

The controversial Poolbeg Incinerator has been given the green light.

An Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a €500 million sewage treatment plant in Dublin.

A High Court challenge has been mounted against the refusal by Bord Pleanála to give the go-ahead for a solar power-generating facility in the south-east.

A CORK city councillor has claimed that sectional interests were put ahead of the public interest in previous decisions relating to a planning application for a gaelscoil on the city’s northside.

RINGASKIDDY is not a backyard, it is a gateway. And it is no ordinary gateway because it opens onto the ocean.

THERE is no doubt now that the granting of permission for the Poolbeg incinerator was out of the control of An Bórd Pleanála and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The outcome of the Bord Pleanála decision on the proposed incinerator at Ringaskiddy, which gave approval to Indaver Ireland to proceed with the country’s first toxic waste plant, is a perplexing one.

Plans to develop a nationwide network of rural cycling lanes on secondary roads have been put in jeopardy by An Bord Pleanála.

Long-awaited improvements to the N86 main road, through the Dingle Peninsula, could be delayed for up to 20 years if An Bord Pleanála does not give the all-clear for the work to proceed.

The future of what is Ireland’s only dedicated track for car drifting – Total Drift in east Cork – is uncertain after a ruling that planning permission is needed for the continued use of the facility.

ENERGY giant Shell was hit with a serious setback yesterday after being told by planners to re-route part of the controversial Corrib gas pipeline because it posed a safety risk.

AN BORD Pleanála was not subjected to any external pressure in relation to the €900 million Corrib Gas project, the head of the authority said yesterday.