Standing on the outdoor roof-top terrace of the rapidly completing 250,000 sq ft Penrose Dock office scheme on Cork’s North Quays docklands, developer John Cleary looks south over the River Lee, and then downriver, to the east. The JCD group MD says,“over there was the last 15 years....and down there is the next 40 years.”

Plans by Tayto Park to have its planned €15.5m ‘Coaster 2021’ project operational for next year have suffered a major setback.

One of the country’s largest building firms has secured planning permission for a major new

Work on the stalled Cork event centre could begin within months after it emerged that the State is poised to more than double its original investment to €50m.

An opposing submission from the local primary school St Audoen’s describes school staff and parents tryingto revive a woman who had overdosed on drugs on a green across from the junior playground.

The first phase of the project, which is being developed by Cork County Council, will focus on developing a launch area for boats/kayaks close to Mallow bridge.

Eight years ago councillors designated iconic places such as Ballybunion as being of “no scenic importance” and therefore suitable for wind energy development.

The future of several major stud farms in Co Kildare is under threat from the proposed development of a quarry near Kilcullen, according to leading figures in the horse racing industry.

It must be welcomed that five siblings who have been living in direct provision while attending school or college in Cork for a number of years will not be deported.

The High Court has overturned, on consent, a planning permission for construction of 164 homes on the site of a disused hotel in Howth village.

Christian Brothers College (CBC), one of Cork’s best-known fee-paying schools, has been given the go-ahead for a €12.5m development at its Sidney Hill campus.

Planning permission has been granted for a new cultural centre, including prayer rooms, for Muslims living in Clonmel, Co Tipperary despite strong opposition from a large group of local residents.

Uprooting from a city quayside site after six decades will be a pleasant wrench for a Cork business – in return for moving, Carey Tool Hire is getting a brand new building, on a three-acre Ring Road site, passed by up to 100,000 cars a day, plus a multi-million euro site sale windfall.

A proposal to rezone sports land for an apartments scheme planned by a well-known Cork hurling club has been shot down.

Last November, Goodman firm, Ternary Ltd lodged plans to demolish 47, 48 & 49 Kildare Street and No 1 Nassau Street to make way for a new office development.

Barranafaddock Sustainable Electricity Limited (BSEL) has been operating 12 turbines at Ballyduff Upper near Lismore since 2016.

In our country we still have places that bear no evidence of disturbance by man, that are in their pristine state and rich with all the elements that feed the spirit and deliver us into the world beyond the skin of the time and circumstances we live in.

Education is an uncontestable good. It empowers and liberates and helps us all to realise potential.

The developers of the proposed student apartment complex overlooking the Lough in Cork city have started discussions with An Bord Pleanála with a view to increasing the number of apartments in the development.

An Bord Pleanála has been refused leave to appeal a High Court decision quashing approval for a 197-unit strategic infrastructure residential development in Bearna, Co Galway.