Environmental activists tonight claimed almighty floods proved plans for a 100,000 tonne toxic burner in Cork harbour were awash with flaws.

Politicians and residents today pledged a fierce four-week fight against plans for controversial toxic waste burners in their areas.

Politicians and residents opposed to the construction of incinerators in their localities are due to mount a demonstration outside the Dáil today in protest at the Government's waste management policies.

An Bord Pleanála should have demanded a safety audit before approving the €200m Corrib Gas Field project, it was claimed today.

The €200m Corrib Gas Field project was tonight approved by An Bord Pleanala.

Comments by Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea that the Cork site for a controversial incinerator were not in his opinion "appropriate" for the waste facility have prompted the company behind the plan to counter that neither the local naval base nor the marine college opposed the planning application.

A Fianna Fáil candidate blamed a “media witchunt” on his family for pulling out of the forthcoming Meath by-election, it emerged tonight.

Heritage campaigners today backed a decision to block the building of a wind farm overlooking the pilgrimage island of Lough Derg in Co Donegal.

Environmental activists fighting plans for a toxic burner in Cork harbour today claimed the Government had washed its hands of local people’s health.

Shamrock Rovers' future is once again in doubt after South Dublin County Council (SDCC) refused an application to extend planning permission for the club’s new home ground in Tallaght.

Dublin City Council has approved plans to construct a 32-storey tower that, if completed, would become Ireland’s tallest building.

A couple who fought for 15 years to secure planning permission to develop one of the world’s largest stalactites as a tourist attraction could face another hurdle, it emerged today.

An Bord Pleanála has approved plans by an Anglo-Irish consortium to construct Ireland's largest factory outlet centre in Dundalk, Co Louth.

An Bord Pleanála has denied planning permission for a development at one of Ireland's oldest round towers in the Clondalkin area of west Dublin.

A new €100m development at the Royal Dublin Society grounds in Dublin was today given the go-ahead.

Supermacs has been told it has to remove its signage and change its shopfront in Temple Bar in Dublin.

Sinn Féin has questioned whether Phil Hogan is suitable to serve as Ireland's next EU Commissioner.

Planners have overturned a Dublin City Council decision to allow the facade of the former Bewleys on

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NAMA chief executive Brendan McDonagh has today welcomed the announcement by An Bord Pleanála of its approval for the Dublin Docklands SDZ planning scheme.

The GAA has said it accepts recommendations put forward in the latest effort to resolve a row with residents around Croke Park in Dublin.