PLANS for a controversial incinerator in Tipperary took a step further yesterday when the company involved applied for an Environmental Protection Agency licence.

IT would seem that an Bord Pleanála values the lives of horses and birds more that those of human beings.

THE Irish Examiner of June 7 devoted approximately three column inches to a High Court decision to uphold a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a wind farm within five miles of Gougane Barra National Forest Park.

A PLAN to develop a halfway house for recovering alcoholics have been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

MICHAEL FLATLEY has been invited to talks with a county manager about his €30 million refurbishment of a stately home, amid fears he could drop the project after having some of the work turned down.

I REFER to the story headlined ‘Lack of mobile phone coverage in valley is putting lives at risk’ (Irish Examiner, April 19).

TDs across the political spectrum last night gave a broad welcome to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to refuse Roadstone Dublin Ltd a licence for a landfill site on its land in Blessington, Co Wicklow.

RINGASKIDDY is not a backyard, it is a gateway. And it is no ordinary gateway because it opens onto the ocean.

AT the start of George Orwell’s magnificent novel 1984, its anti-hero Winston Smith hears the loudspeakers drone that Oceania is at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.

OBJECTORS are expected to take their fight against a €14.5 million water scheme to the courts after Bord Pleanála granted Cork County Council a conditional order to proceed with the project.

THE biggest construction project ever undertaken in south Tipperary is set to commence within months.

JOHN AHERN of Indaver Ireland, (Irish Examiner Letters, November 11) would like us to believe that all is well. His job is to sell incinerators and make huge profits for his overseas shareholders.

BUCK-PASSING is the name of the game as flood waters continue to ravage Irish cities and towns.

CURBS are to be imposed by Killarney Town Council on the building of offices and apartments in housing estates.

AN BORD Pleanála has been heavily criticised for refusing planning permission for a €25 million five-star hotel in Kinsale.

IT would seem that “archaeological significance” carries a different meaning in different areas of this little island.

ADDITIONAL State- owned land around the country is to be made available for affordable housing, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirmed yesterday.

A €45 million hospital and radiotherapy development for Waterford has been given the green light by planners clearing the way for work to begin next month.