A proposed new town north of Cork City could become gridlocked with traffic if the National Roads Authority maintains its refusal to provide a full junction connection to the planned Northern Ring Road.

A Cork Gaelscoil has welcomed a court decision that should let its new school building go ahead.

Desperate efforts are being made to save Kerry’s only existing primary care centre after the Killarney centre’s management company, Prime Healthcare, became insolvent earlier this year.

As partners for the past 11 years of the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment, we were relieved at the decision of Indaver to abandon its legal challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s planning refusal for their incinerators at Ringaskiddy.

Doonbeg Golf Club has joined forces with the Irish Peatland Conservation Council and Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) in opposing plans for a €200m wind farm in Clare.

Waste management company Indaver has sensationally dropped its High Court challenge against An Bord Pleanála’s decision to refuse permission for its €140m incinerator in Cork Harbour.

Residents in Cork Harbour are facing another massive battle with Indaver after it confirmed plans last night to lodge a third planning application for a €140m incinerator in the area.

O’Callaghan Properties are looking for up to €25m for the 180-bed River Lee hotel they built in 2006 on the old Jurys Hotel site in Cork city.

Plans for the country’s largest district heating system, which involves a timber-based biomass plant in Killarney, Co Kerry, have been rejected by the town council.

The Government is to outline proposals for a planning tsar on recommendations from the damning Mahon Tribunal report.

A High Court challenge has been launched against An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to grant permission for a crematorium and burial grounds in south Co Dublin.

Planning has been approved for the ground floor of a contentious medical centre in Killarney, Co Kerry.

I am a resident of Youghal (and have been for the past 35 years).

The principal of a Co Cork gaelscoil says she is delighted that An Bord Pleanála has granted permission for a new school, which she has been seeking for the past 18 years.

Youghal Town Council is to complain to An Bord Pleanála over a planning decision delay of almost a year which it claims is stifling investment in the town.

Permission to challenge a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a large-scale retail development at the site of a former military barracks in Co Cork has been granted by the High Court.

PLANNING has just been granted this week for a €15m further investment and extension to the Ballincollig Shopping Centre in Cork, to be anchored by Tesco.

A new Tesco store, part of a €15m extension to Cork’s Ballincollig Shopping Centre, is set to bring 150 badly needed construction jobs over the next year.

One of the country’s top tourist town has given the thumbs down to a gaming arcade.

A local authority has spent more than €250,000 to date on a controversial pier project.