More than 100 leading figures from the worlds of literature, film, and academics had opposed the move, which they said would 'destroy an essential part of Ireland's cultural heritage'

Bord Pleanála oral hearing told childrens’ burial ground does not overlap land earmarked for 179 apartments on a former mother and baby home estate

It’s not often the northside gets to look down on the southside, but whoever ends up living in the high reaches of Shanakiel, on lands once home to a now-derelict Victorian mental asylum, will have, arguably, the best city view in Cork.

An Taisce says it will ‘determine’ if there are grounds to appeal decision

Bord Pleanala to begin oral hearing into contentious apartments plan

Four-storey apartment block planned, along with row of terraced houses

Planning was granted yesterday for the 266-unit development at the former St Kevin's site in Shanakiel, north-west of the city centre.

The project will see 46 houses and 220 apartments built on the 14-acre St Kevin’s hospital site in Shanakiel, overlooking the Lee Fields, just west of the city centre

An Bord Pleanála will decide this week whether part of Bessborough land should be turned into housing. How in 2021 is a plan to build on a suspected mass infant burial site even being considered?

Public’s relationship with various state agencies is increasingly strained

Kay O’Mahony’s on Dominic Street in Cork will be developed to provide nine new apartments against the recommendation of its own planning inspector

Public input and submissions sought for city's draft plan as Cork faces sea-changes, from tidal flooding to Covid-19's fallout

An Bord Pleanála will not appeal a successful High Court challenge against the granting of planning permission over the €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Cork Harbour.

Aughinish Alumina had claimed the extension to their plant at Foynes was of strategic economic importance to the State and the mid-west region

Residents' associations along the proposed route of a high-voltage underground cable, part of the Celtic Interconnector project, are teaming up to oppose its laying close to their homes

Piggery in Ballymacoda, East Cork, has been granted permission to demolish an existing piggery and increase the same site from its current 1,000 'finisher' pigs to 4,224-4,500 finishers, which will double the output of pig slurry to 7m litres a year

No evidence to conclude that exposure to low-level electromagnetic fields is harmful to human health.

A Cork-based development firm had sought approval for a five-storey mixed-development which would have required several properties including Quinn's near Croke Park to be knocked

A wind farm planned close to a Cork community already “surrounded” by turbines “in a 360-degree radius” is to see its number of turbines increased.

Cork City Council had sought €750,000 while the GAA had claimed €60,000 would be the appropriate amount to pay