WHILE enjoying a relaxed Saturday morning's breakfast I almost choked on my rashers on noticing your piece (Irish Examiner, March 6) about the waste management company Indaver's plans to 'counter misinformation' with a new publicity campaign regarding their proposed hazardous and toxic waste incineration facility for Cork.

I AM writing in response to the column by Pat Brosnan titled “Democracy incinerated in pursuit of something called common good” in which he expresses his opinion that democracy was poorly served when An Bord Pleanála gave permission to Indaver Ireland to construct a chemical incinerator at Ringaskiddy in spite of community objections.

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.

WILMOUNT Terrace in Cobh has a crow’s nest perch above Cork harbour - and that’s perhaps part of the reason why the daughter of a long-serving Cork harbour pilot lived at this address for many years.

A LANDMARK decision by An Bord Pleanála will force a builder to allocate 20% of an upmarket development to social and affordable housing.

A BROTHER of JP McManus, Gerry McManus and his wife Michelle, have been given permission by An Bord Pleanala to demolish sections of the period property Fedamore House in Co Limerick.

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.

IN a letter (Irish Examiner, December 29), I challenged An Bord Pleanála, the EPA and Indaver Ireland Ltd to deny that the proposed Ringaskiddy incinerators will discharge toxic ash and poisonous emissions to the atmosphere.

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.

ONE of Ireland’s leading property developers has won a planning dispute - with his sister-in-law.

THE opening day of a Bord Pleanála hearing in Dungarvan yesterday into Waterford County Council’s proposal to develop a landfill outside the town, was told that in an ideal world waste would be buried five miles underground.

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.