A REDEVELOPED stately home could deal with up to 10,000 visitors a week, a Bord Pleanála oral hearing was told yesterday.

EUROPE’S biggest on-shore wind energy farm will soon be built in Co Mayo.

A €1 BILLION dual-carriageway linking the outskirts of Dublin to the south east is expected to get the green light next week, despite more than 100 objections to the route.

The New Year sees the march to the right of the FF/PD Junta, to the tune of big business and vested affluent interest groups.

KILLARNEY Town Council has decided to rezone a controversial five-acre site, owned by the multi-millionaire McShain family, to allow for a luxury housing development.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche announced that the route of the Waterford bypass must change to protect an important Viking site.

A €440 million shopping and residential development which will provide at least 350 new jobs is to go ahead in Co Waterford, after objectors failed in attempts to have An Bord Pleanála block the project.

TEARS were shed yesterday as members of a small community told how a landfill site has devastated their lives.

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a 100-bedroom hotel and 66 houses in Co Cork have been turned down, but Marymount Hospice has received permission to build a 129-bed hospital.

A PERIOD home in Clonakilty, Co Cork, has character and aspect - and a half-acre site with development potential that underpins its e1m asking price with local agent Ray O’Neill, of the Sherry Fitzgerald franchise.

WHY aren’t the people of Cork out in their thousands protesting against the draft licence which the EPA has granted Indaver for two incinerators in Cork harbour.

BY all means put hundreds of wind farms offshore where they are at least efficient, but do not ruin Ireland by siting ten here and ten there.

OFF-LICENCES will be banned under a €3 million regeneration plan for Cork’s historic Blackrock village.

SOUTH Tipperary is set to have its first incinerator in the coming year.

THE Competition Authority was called on to carry out an urgent investigation into the spiralling cost of diesel yesterday.

O’FLYNN Construction is to re-apply for permission to build a €200 million, 600-house development despite having the project turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

KERRY County Council yesterday gave the all-clear for the biggest-ever wind farm in the county, to be developed at a cost of €70m.

THE EPA seems almost certain to grant a license to the proposed incinerator at Ringaskiddy on the basis of An Bord Pleanála’s decision.

THE inability of two senior heritage officials to attend and give evidence to the Oireachtas Environment Committee hearing on the proposed M3 (Clonee-to-Kells) motorway is of serious concern on two levels.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to give the go-ahead for Indaver’s toxic waste incinerator on the shores of Cork harbour must spell the end of the Bord as a credible planning body.