THE owner of a holiday park pond in which a two-year-old baby drowned last summer has secured council backing for a fresh bid to have it filled in.

PLANNING permission was granted yesterday by Cork County Council for a 204-house development in Crosshaven, while an application was received for an equally large development in Castlemartyr.

ONE of the country’s largest builders has been granted planning permission for a €210 million development, less than 300 yards from where another of his major proposals was turned down by An Bord Pleanála.

FEARS that a badly needed ring road for Tralee are being long-fingered by the National Roads Authority (NRA) have been voiced by Kerry county engineer Tom Curran.

AN ENVIRONMENTAL company that was refused planning for a compost facility in west Waterford has been given the green light by An Bord Pleanála.

MICHAEL MCDOWELL, we were told this week, had depicted himself as the ‘Messiah of Dublin South East’ who had engaged in the “final betrayal”.

AN BÓRD Pleanála was under fire last night for overruling a local authority and giving the green light for a mobile phone mast close to a Traveller halting site and a crèche.

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.

STATE agencies can continue to charge people €20 and €45 to object to or make an observation on a planning application, according to an opinion from the European Court in Luxembourg.

PLANS to create Ireland’s first commercial anaerobic waste digester have been turned down by Cork County Council.

THE Government will find out later this week if its controversial introduction of fees for people wanting to lodge planning objections is in breach of EU legislation.

AN estimated €100 million worth of houses are being proposed for Carrigtwohill, which is set to become a major commuter town when the Cork-Midleton railway reopens at the end of next year.

AN Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a multi-million euro power station in Cork, much to the delight of local residents.

A MAJOR row has erupted again between the residents of a Dublin square and the owner of a park after it was opened up yesterday as a public car park.