AN EMBATTLED John Gormley last night strenuously rejected claims he told lies regarding the Poolbeg incinerator in a bitter war of words with one of his constituency rivals.

An environmental campaigner has succeeded in blocking plans to deposit 78,000 tonnes of soil on agricultural land in west Kerry which he claimed threatened to pollute a local river.

The Port of Cork has lodged a major planning application with An Bord Pleanála for a massive multimillion-euro expansion of its Ringaskiddy facilities.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission to Trump Doonbeg’s contentious plans for coastal protection plans at the west Clare course.

Off-shore windfarms and the use of solar energy should be considered instead of placing large wind turbines near rural communities in Co Cork.

The approval of a major student apartment development near the Lough in Cork city has been described as a 'hammer blow' to the area.

Anti-incinerator campaigners have launched a legal challenge to the decision to grant planning permission for a toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

The Islamic community wanted to build on a site at the Hebron Industrial Estate on the edge of Kilkenny city.

THE country’s largest private waste collector claimed yesterday that a decision by Bord Pleanála to turn down its plans for a controversial €20 million superdump would only compound the waste crisis facing the Munster region.

The long-running Eircom Park saga has taken a fresh twist this afternoon.

Plans for over 10,000 homes, apartments, and student bed spaces have been put before An Bord Pleanála by developers seeking to take advantage of new fast-track planning rules in a four- month period.

A fresh planning row has broken out over the use of a public car park by customers of a supermarket in Bantry.