A WASTE treatment company which wanted to develop a recycling plant in Co Waterford has been refused planning.

A WASTE treatment company which was refused planning for a recycling plant in Co Waterford is to appeal the decision to An Bord Pleanála.

A YOUNG Kerry hurler may have to demolish the walls of a €180,000 house he started to build without planning permission in a scenic area.

PLANNING problems with proposed mobile phone masts in Kerry are continuing, with four further refusals in recent weeks.

IT’S time to cry halt to the building of apartments in Killarney, one of the town’s longest-serving councillors urged yesterday.

A WEST CORK mother yesterday pleaded with ESB Networks not to erect overhead cables, linking a private wind farm, near her home.

THE LARGEST office development ever proposed for Cork city received the go-ahead from the city council yesterday.

MILLIONAIRE businessman and leading Fianna Fáil supporter, Jim Mansfield, has admitted he was “technically wrong” to begin construction work on a €50m conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex in south-west Dublin without fully-authorised planning permission.

THE former county manager of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (DLRCC) has, within months of retiring, taken up a senior position with a development company behind a controversial high-rise development in south Dublin, the Dáil was told last night.

AN attempt by residents of a Co Cork town to mount a legal challenge aimed at preventing the construction of Ireland’s first hazardous waste incinerator will be made in the High Court today.

A MAJOR developer is being linked with plans to build a private hospital with radiotherapy services in Waterford city. But the two local medics, who have spearheaded the project, say it doesn’t mean they are cutting their links with the development.

RESIDENTS in a small Galway village are preparing to fight a superdump they fear will attract rats and flocks of seagulls.

AS yesterday’s inquiry into one of the most emotive issues facing modern society degenerated into something of a shambles, the cliche ‘it could only happen in Ireland’ became reality.

CLONAKILTY’S Glebe House, on the town’s landmark Emmet Square, has had its Easter Rising.

TRANSPORT Minister Séamus Brennan has asked Aer Rianta not to sign any contracts on its new 70 million terminal at Dublin Airport until a final decision is made on a proposed independently-run second terminal.

HOUSEHOLDERS in Waterford should not be forced to endure higher refuse charges next year, a local TD has said.

A HOST of international academics and historians have joined a campaign to save Ireland’s most precious heritage site from damage by motorway construction.

AN BORD Pleanála was not subjected to any external pressure in relation to the €900 million Corrib Gas project, the head of the authority said yesterday.

FOR the last six years, I have been involved in trying to help contain the effects of current policies regarding housing development in my area of Co Wexford - Murrintown/Mayglass.

WHAT law is it that allows five innocent men to be jailed in order to facilitate the construction of a pipeline carrying untreated gas through their lands?