IT seemed like an impossible dream for many years but Cork School of Music is ready to open the doors to a new €60 million future.

PLANS for a long-awaited, €1.5 million development by Killarney Rugby Club have been turned down by Kerry County Council, but an appeal may be lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

EFFORTS are continuing to resolve a stand-off between a community in Kerry and providers of a controversial telecommunications mast which has been given planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.

AN Bord Pleanála has overruled its inspector’s decision not to grant an extension to a private hospital in Cork.

INDAVER Ireland doesn’t believe its planned €140 million incinerator in Cork Harbour is under threat following a report commissioned by the Minister of the Environment that recommended capping the amount of waste that can be incinerated in this country.

ANTI-PIPELINE protesters in Mayo have vowed to continue with their campaign of opposition to Shell’s Corrib gas line development despite “extreme pressure from the state”.

A RULING by An Bord Pleanála to uphold an objection to expand Limerick’s Crescent Shopping Centre will cost up to 400 retail jobs, it was claimed yesterday.

A REPORT on the future of Dublin Port has raised serious doubts about the commercial benefits of the controversial proposal to relocate the country’s busiest cargo facility to a new site in north county Dublin.

A HOTEL redevelopment and extension has been given the go-ahead at one of the country’s top blue flag beaches on the Dingle peninsula – made famous also by the film Ryan’s Daughter.

IN his column (Examiner County, April 20), Peter Levy wrote about the restriction that the ESB’s cross river pylons were having on the Tall Ships entering Cork’s upper harbour and how this was impacting on the possibility of the Tall Ships race returning to Cork.

OBJECTORS have until close of business on Monday to lodge submissions with An Bord Pleanála in relation to the construction of a €600 million motorway linking Cork and Limerick.

THE cyber age’s bid to spread its message into a pristine landscape has perished between a rock and a hard place in a Bronze Age valley.

GALWAY got a massive jobs boost last night when the green light was given to the redevelopment of the city’s main shopping centre, creating more than 1,000 jobs.

HEAVY traffic generated by the building of a power station and an accompanying LNG (liquefied natural gas) importing terminal in Tarbert, Co Kerry, could cause serious congestion in the village, an oral planning hearing was told in Listowel yesterday.

A €500 MILLION gas-fired power station would have huge economic benefits for the jobs-starved north Kerry area, an oral planning hearing was told in Listowel yesterday.

A DEVELOPER has accused the National Roads Authority (NRA) of putting 1,500 jobs at risk by objecting to his plans to build a €200 million office project near one of the country’s busiest roundabouts.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has been severely criticised for objecting to a major office project in Cork which has the potential to create 1,500 jobs.

AMID growing concerns about delays in moving ahead with plans for a natural gas-fired power plant at Tarbert, Co Kerry, a two-day oral planning hearing into the project begins tomorrow.

PLANNING is expected to be granted today for three bridges over the River Lee to help kick-start one of the state’s most ambitious regeneration projects.

THE European Commission has been asked to prevent Bord Pleanála allowing a company more time to make its case for the development of two major incinerators in Cork harbour.