Families living in the Lee Valley area of Co Cork are refusing to give up their nine-year fight to stop a windfarm being sited close to one of the Europe’s last ancient river forests. They are to appeal Cork County Council’s latest decision to An Bord Pleanála.

Dublin Port Company is lodging an application with An Bord Pleanála for its second major capital development project.

The way is now clear for Intel to get the go-ahead for its planned $4bn (€3.53bn) manufacturing fabrication (FAB) facility at its Leixlip plant from Kildare County Council.

A SOLE objector has succeeded in halting a massive €40 million commercial and retail development in Limerick city centre which would have given work to 600 people.

THE path looks clear for Cork’s new €150 million concert venue to proceed in the city centre as developer Owen O’Callaghan is ending his rival bid for a docklands venue.

If the Government hoped to avert controversy over the relentless march of giant electricity pylons across the country, the appointment of ex-Bord Pleanála chairman John O’Connor as head of Eirgrid, amounts to another self-inflicted public relations disaster for the Coalition.

An Bord Pleanala has given the green light to a controversial €115m commercial and housing development just outside Nenagh, Co Tipperary.

Bord na Mona workers who fear they may lose their jobs want an urgent meeting with the Environment Minister, Denis Naughten.

LOCAL residents opposing the use of part of the Tank Field on Cork’s northside for a school are to hold a public meeting next week.

CONCERNS were raised yesterday about health and safety aspects of a €400 million gas terminal to be built on a site between Tarbert and Ballylongford, on the Kerry bank of the Shannon Estuary.

Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae is facing further delay over his plans to convert a former pub in Tralee into apartments in the latest chapter in a long-running planning row with some local residents in the north Kerry town.

THE owner of a park in south Dublin is to mount a Supreme Court challenge to prevent Dublin City Council from compulsorily acquiring the site.

The High Court has rejected an appeal against a €280m power line between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Tesco has blocked a major new store planned by Lidl in Limerick city. This is the latest planning clash between the two large multiples.

Tesco Ireland has temporarily put the brakes on German discounter Aldi’s Irish expansion plans.