Multinational coffee retailer Starbucks opened three stores in Cork city centre without obtaining the necessary planning permission, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

Developers say no flooding risk to Blackpool, but OPW says centre appears to be located on floodplain

Local protestors will today seek a deferral of the oral hearing into the incinerator proposed for Ringaskiddy in Cork.

It’s no surprise that the seats in the Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium are as good as new given the classic matches staged there which have had crowds on their feet over the last decade.

Comments by Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea that the Cork site for a controversial incinerator were not in his opinion "appropriate" for the waste facility have prompted the company behind the plan to counter that neither the local naval base nor the marine college opposed the planning application.

A PETITION has been signed by 5,000 people in support of the development of two major supermarkets that would create hundreds of jobs in Tipperary.

A GROUP awaiting a Bord Pleanála ruling on a controversial super-quarry is poised to launch an EU campaign to halt quarrying in their area.

HOPES were voiced yesterday that there would be no further delays in going ahead with a €500 million natural gas-fired energy project in Tarbert, Co Kerry.

Indaver, which was previously refused planning permission for an incinerator in Cork Harbour, is to lodge another application next week for a €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge brought against An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to grant planning permission for a nine-screen cinema, café, and retail units in Navan, Co Meath.

AN Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a multi-million euro power station in Cork, much to the delight of local residents.

Plans for a housing development in Castlemartyr have been rejected because of the inadequacy of wastewater treatment facilities in the East Cork village.