Plans to build a respite care centre for sick children near Tralee, to honour the memory of two Kerry children who died of an incurable degenerative condition, have been put on hold following objections from a GAA club.

The Green Party has criticised An Bord Pleanála’s decision to approve the construction of a controversial toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

Residents from a community on the southside of Cork city are to meet with local councillors tomorrow night to organise opposition to a proposal to build a 17-storey apartment block next to their homes.

BORD Pleanála has refused a developer permission to build 112 houses in a village, west of Cork city, following South Western Regional Fisheries Board objections.

ANOTHER child almost drowned in the pond which claimed the life of little Glen McNamara Twomey, it emerged yesterday.

A company has failed in a High Court challenge to a Bord Pleanála refusal to approve composting activities by it on a farm in Co. Kildare.

THE cyber age’s bid to spread its message into a pristine landscape has perished between a rock and a hard place in a Bronze Age valley.

NEWLY discovered 2,000-year-old ruins at the ancient Hill of Tara site must be fully preserved because of their unique size and character, according to a US academic.

A GATEWAY site close to Cork County Hall is to be redeveloped as a six-storey apartment and commercial complex.

SWEDISH furniture giant IKEA was yesterday given the go-ahead to open a massive outlet in Ballymun, north Dublin.

The High Court has overturned, on consent, An Bord Pleanála's permission for increased height of two blocks of apartments in a development of 500 apartments/co-living spaces in the north Dublin docklands.

RTÉ broadcaster Tom McGurk and his wife, PR guru Caroline Kennedy, want to prevent a building firm’s residential development on a former hospital site near their home in Dublin 4.

THE development of a DART underground line is the essential “missing link” in the Dublin commuter rail network, An Bord Pleanála has been told.

An Bord Pleanála has said it will continue to prioritise large-scale housing appeals after its latest annual report showed it granted permission for more than 7,100 housing units and almost 4,500 student bed-spaces during 2018.

AN Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a revolving advertising sign at a busy junction in Tralee because it would create a traffic hazard.

ANOTHER child almost drowned in the pond which claimed the life of Glen McNamara Twomey, it emerged yesterday.

Dublin City Council will not be going ahead with plans to put a compulsory purchase order on a park in Rathmines.

PLANNING conditions which discriminate in favour of local residents or relatives of local residents could be unconstitutional, according to the Law Society.