Páirc Uí Chaoimh should be chosen to host All-Ireland quarter or semi-finals when it reopens in 2017 following a €70 million upgrade, according to the Cork County Board chairman.

The mystery owners of Ireland’s most expensive house were the subject of a heated exchange at yesterday’s Bord Pleanála appeal hearing over plans to build homes on the site.

Mystery surrounds the ownership of a Dublin 4 house sold last year by Sean and Gayle Dunne ahead of a hearing into plans to build four new homes on the grounds. Niall Murray reports.

Residents from the well-heeled Merrion Rd, and others in Dublin 4, have failed in their attempts to block the world’s biggest democracy establishing a new embassy on the road.

Significant internal and external changes to Cork’s Merchants Quay Shopping Centre are proposed in an application lodged last week.

After years in the wilderness Naas, Co Kildare, could almost be said to be on a roll - so long as the small businesses can hold on, writes Caroline O'Doherty.

Eagle-Eye rather than Hawk-Eye will determine the fate of the GAA’s plan to carry out a €70m redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The Port of Cork’s new €100m Ringaskiddy terminal expansion plan has several key differences to the scheme which was shot down six years ago, the company insisted yesterday.

The planned redevelopment of Kent railway station, in Cork City, is the subject of a new application by Irish Rail.

An equestrian centre near the Cork suburb of Rochestown could become a retirement village if a recent planning application is successful.

THE company behind a €100 million wind farm in Co Clare also plans to create a 360 degree visitor viewing platform on the site.

A PUBLIC hearing is to be held to examine a planned €460 million casino and leisure development for Co Tipperary.

PLANS for a revised €6 million pier at Doolin in Co Clare will pose a significant health and safety threat to surfers along with damaging the world famous wave environment at the location.

THE High Court liquidation of five Whelan group companies has ended the quarry group’s 11-year long battle to construct a contentious €10 million explosives plant on the Shannon estuary.

AS 30,000 objectors in Cork, along with their democratically elected county council, near the tenth anniversary of their struggle against toxic incineration in Cork Harbour, we are alarmed to find no mention of incineration in the Fine Gael manifesto.

THE body that represents almost 1,000 businesses in Cork has called on the incoming Government to adopt its pro-business proposals and introduce sweeping reforms to secure jobs and competitiveness.