IT’S all about place, Maura Harrington says. Protect a place and it will protect its people.

IT is time Noel Dempsey and friends were called to task over their cynical posturing as impartial observers in the Corrib gas dispute.

CORK’S sprawling docklands area is on the fast track to a multi-billion euro transformation after it was cleared for vital tax breaks by Europe yesterday.

TALKS are at an advanced stage for the development of a third new private hospital in Limerick.

YET another holiday home development earmarked for a coastal area of Kerry has been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

SCORES of objectors to Ireland’s first commercial anaerobic waste digester are expected to pack a hotel in North Cork later this month when An Bord Pleanála holds an oral hearing into the proposed €75 million project.

MARY O’Leary would like to clear up all the things she is not.

A TOP businessman joined Limerick Chamber of Commerce yesterday for a confident declaration that Limerick city centre is poised for a huge shopping take-off.

RICHARD MURPHY of Westmeath Environmental Group asks why Energy Minister Noel Dempsey would not visit Rossport to see things for himself (Irish Examiner letters, November 10).

IRISH planning authorities can continue to charge an administrative fee for making a submission on planning applications and appeals involving environmental impact assessments, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

CHARLES HAUGHEY preferred equestrian sports to golf but even he would have been impressed with the hole in one scored by the developers of his former estate home.

RESIDENTS fighting controversial plans for another quarry in East Cork will represent themselves at an oral hearing into the project, starting tomorrow.

A MAJOR housing and leisure development, earmarked for Caherciveen, has been turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

PROMOTERS of major transport and energy projects which are due to enjoy a new fast-tracked planning process will still face oral planning hearings to allow local communities voice their opinions.

SWEDISH furniture giant IKEA was yesterday given the go-ahead to open a massive outlet in Ballymun, north Dublin.

BAD planning by local authorities means towns will soon need new roads to bypass their bypasses, one of the country’s leading planning officials has warned.

With the daily tribunal disclosures, it should hardly come as a surprise to people that our planning laws are developing into a farce.

UNIVERSITY College Cork is seeking to add two extra floors to a €60 million IT building on which construction recently started, despite a lack of full clearance for its funding.

A NUMBER of schemes earmarked for small villages have been refused planning permission by Cork County Council.

LOCAL residents have claimed the scale of the proposed new stadium at Lansdowne Road is too large and designed merely to incorporate highly lucrative conference facilities.