A challenge to planning permission for a new Aldi supermarket in Laytown, Co Meath, has been dismissed by the High Court.

More than 7,000 houses and almost 4,500 student beds were approved under the fast-track planning scheme introduced by the government in July 2017.

27 housing developments were granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála by the end of 2018, according to its 2018 casework review.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal over An Bord Pleanála’s approval for the planned 138-kilometre north-south electricity interconnector.

Over the past 20 years there have been repeated examples of major capital project overruns. But has anything been learned from both these and the current National Children’s Hospital fiasco to warrant confidence that they can be prevented in future?, asks Caroline O’Doherty.

Ireland’s largest theme park, Tayto Park, has secured planning permission for an “iconic” €14m roller-coaster ride.

New homes prices starting from €247,000 for two-beds, and €295,000 for three-bed townhouses, are the immediate, stand-out points to note as the long-awaited €150m Ballinglanna, Cork scheme of 600 homes and services by the O’Flynn Group gets launched next weekend, from February 16.

An elected member of Cork County Council has failed in her attempt to block the development of a large apartment block in Passage West.

Aodhan O’Riordan and Finian McGrath are two politicians who appear eager to tackle the housing crisis but wish to insulate their own back yards from the emergency, writes Michael Clifford

County councillors are adamant they will not change amenity zoning on a former GAA club in Cork after talks to purchase it broke down with the receiver.

The Catholic Church is facing a large tax bill next year after losing an appeal against the inclusion on the vacant sites register of lands it owns at Blackpool in Cork.

An online petition against the opening of the arcade launched by Mr Lane collected 1,607 names.

Iarnród Éireann has run into difficulty with the planning authorities over repairs it carried out to a footbridge over a railway line in Co Tipperary.

Residents in a west Waterford townland have lodged an appeal to Bord Pleanála against Waterford Council’s decision to grant planning for a solar farm on a 74-acre rural site.

Questions over how to fund the proposed events centre in Cork has left the project in limbo and the city still waiting for its first curtain call, writes Eoin English.

Temple Bar residents, led by author and former Irish Times journalist Frank McDonald, have succeeded in blocking plans for a four-storey student accommodation block in the area.

Environmentalists have succeeded in halting a proposed extension to a quarry in Co Kerry which they feared would cause damage to a local beauty spot.

Waterford chairman Pat Joe Ryan has expressed disappointment at how GAA chiefs treated the county following their breach of training camp protocols.

Cllr Mick Finn has said that plans to build 57 student apartments, including some 419 student beds, on Bandon Road will create an imbalance that will threaten other communities in the area.

A windfarm proposed for north Kerry, near the Shannon estuary, has been refused planning permission, on grounds of its potential adverse impact on the environment.