RETAIL giant Lidl has apologised to three politicians it accused of interfering in the planning process for political reasons.

THE handing over of Thomond Park to contractors for the €40 million redevelopment of the stadium has been delayed by one week.

A DELEGATION from the European Commission is to travel to Dublin next month to inspect the proposed site for an incinerator at Poolbeg.

CONFUSION surrounded the fate of the controversial Poolbeg incinerator last night after Tánaiste Michael McDowell said the project had collapsed, only to be contradicted by Dublin City Council.

IKEA’S plans to open up shop just off the congested M50 in North Dublin are to be put to the test at an oral hearing next month.

TALKS continued over the weekend to try and resolve the planning impasse which threatens to delay the€40 million development of Thomond Park.

WHEN the GAA’s Management Committee and Central Council meet today they should take stock of the decisions they are being asked to make as regards the use of Croke Park in 2008 for games other than those promoted by the GAA.

THE Limerick rugby club, which is objecting to the €40 million redevelopment of Thomond Park, yesterday pledged to resolve the issue.

IN the run-up to the general election it’s perhaps timely to consider the appalling lack of respect for our heritage which has been continually displayed by the Government, in particular since 2002 when Martin Cullen and his successor Dick Roche held the Environment portfolio.

PLANS for one of Ireland’s largest retirement villages have been overturned.

PEOPLE living in one of Kerry’s most popular seaside areas have lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála against a major caravan park.

CORK’S city councillors want to meet the board of CIÉ to thrash out issues surrounding the crucial, but stalled, development of a key city docklands site.

A GROUP awaiting a Bord Pleanála ruling on a controversial super-quarry is poised to launch an EU campaign to halt quarrying in their area.

ONE of Ireland’s wealthiest property developers has been refused planning permission to revamp one of Kinsale’s most noted hostelries.

ONE of the country’s leading anti-incinerator groups will today call for a change of government.

MULTI-MILLION euro plans for a massive residential and commercial development in Cork’s docklands, which include a landmark 10-storey tower, were finally given the green light by An Bord Pleanála yesterday.

THE €40 million redevelopment of Thomond Park is facing a long planning delay.

A GROWING number of objections against planning for new school buildings or extensions are holding up progress on Government investment, Education Minister Mary Hanafin has warned.

ANOTHER child almost drowned in the pond which claimed the life of little Glen McNamara Twomey, it emerged yesterday.

ANOTHER child almost drowned in the pond which claimed the life of Glen McNamara Twomey, it emerged yesterday.