The Kerry-based hotel group behind the last-minute legal challenge to the €50m state-funding package for Cork's event centre has been accused of lodging a “nasty, vexatious, commercial ambush” on the stalled project.

Mr Thomas Reid is seeking to legally challenge a decision by An Bord Pleanála made last November to grant the computer chip manufacturing giant planning permission to expand its manufacturing facility at Collinstown, in Leixlip.

The council has refused planning permission to an application by the owners of the proposed new facility at the corner of Harcourt Street and Montague Street for lifting a condition which restricts its opening hours to

Planning permission has been granted for the development of an apartment complex on the site of a well-known former pub in Cork city, despite objections from a number of local residents including a city councillor.

It is the first time Cork City Council will have issued such fines, which are designed to motivate the development of vacant sites and to reduce land hoarding.

Dublin City Council has told a company owned by developer, Johnny Ronan, to keep the noise down in its planned new ‘live-work’ venture at Mr Ronan’s luxury Embassy House in Dublin 4.

Farmer Thomas Reid is seeking to bring a High Court challenge to An Bord Pleanála's go ahead for computer chip giant Intel Ireland's €3.6 billion expansion in Leixlip, Co Kildare.

Plans for a major extension of the Jurys Inn hotel in Galway have to be put on hold following objections from a number of parties, including An Taisce.

An Bord Pleanála has given the green light to house builder, Cairn Homes to construct 426 residential units near Greystones in Co Wicklow.

Plans for a 198-unit, build-to-rent, shared living development in Castleknock, Dublin, have been challenged in the High Court.

A plan for new offices for the Israeli Embassy in Dublin is at the centre of a planning dispute, the High Court has heard.

A decade-long lack of investment in major roads projects has caused a major traffic jam in Cork — literally and figuratively.

Carrying a similar-sounding name to a top address on the Monopoly board is Cork’s Aylesbury, which is not entirely coincidentally set next to Cork’s Shrewsbury. And, yes, this Aylesbury “with a ‘y’” too is high-end in terms of location, quality and ...pricing.

An Bord Pleanála has approved the project, which includes a 14-storey building at Bank Place, featuring some 13,000 sq m of office space.

A rural community in Co Cork is set to hold a protest on Sunday against Eirgrid plans to build a major electricity converter station in its midst.

Plans for a new hostel in a former tourist office in the heart of Cork city have been appealed to An Bórd Pleanala.

The future of a €36m R&D campus planned for a site near Dublin Airport is uncertain after An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission for the project.

A planning green light has been give for a 25 storey apartment tower in Cork city has just been approved for the Sextant pub/Carey Tools site in Cork city centre, sandwiched between two major office developments.

It’s not exactly Times Square in New York, but the owners of the Stephen’s Green shopping centre in Dublin face having to remove the large digital advertising sign over its main entrance because of its visual impact on the surrounding area.

A failure to include the names and addresses of residents objecting to housing in north Dublin meant their appeal against the development was invalid, the High Court ruled.