Bord Pleanála has upheld plans to convert a former 19th-century bank in Dungarvan into a bar and restaurant as West Waterford salutes the success of the county’s greenway project.

I mentioned Netflix last week but I promise I lead a real life as well, one in which I get out and talk to human beings and have White Russians in Cask (and those are nice).

The High Court has ordered An Bord Pleanála to make a sworn statement that it is not withholding documents from the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (Chase) as the campaign group prepares to challenge the board’s controversial decision to grant planning permission for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy.

Operating losses at the Trump Doonbeg resort reduced sharply to around €100,000 in 2018 as revenues further increased in the "best year" to date for the resort.

A €40 million hotel at Portobello in Dublin has been given the go ahead.

Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has said that politicians who object to new housing developments are putting the Government in a “very difficult position”.

A developer is concerned that a legal challenge over part of a planned 220-unit housing development in Harold's Cross could delay the entire project, the Commercial Court has heard.

Two peat extraction firms have been refused permission to appeal a significant finding their activities are no longer exempt development.

A West Cork solicitor yesterday failed in a High Court challenge to quash a ruling by An Bord Pleanála which refused him planning permission to use, as his home, a building with questionable access to wastewater treatment facilities.

Cairn Homes has lodged planning documentation with An Bord Pleanála signalling its intention to build 619 apartments and three townhouses on the site it purchased from RTE for €107.5m in 2017.

An inspector who recommended An Bord Pleanala turn down planning permission for a plastics factory in West Cork had believed not enough information had been provided to prove “public health would be safeguarded”.

A Co Waterford community, fighting against a proposed wind farm, has sent protest letters and a video message to a German energy company behind the project.

The Supreme Court will sit in Galway next March to hear an appeal over whether An Bord Pleanála breached its legal obligations in how it approved the first phase of Apple’s planned €850m data centre in Athenry.

A large number of appeals have been lodged from residents and groups in the Carrigtwohill area against a decision to allow a quarry to reopen outside the town.

A European court judgment has clarified environmental obligation issues raised in a legal challenge over a planned extension of the northern ring road of Kilkenny city.

A private firm has lost a High Court challenge to try and close down a car park operated at the Cliffs of Moher by Clare County Council.

Planning permission for one of the country’s largest solar farms has been approved for a site in North Cork, despite strong objections from the local community.

Planning permission has been granted for the first school on a planned education campus at a former Dublin greyhound stadium which was the subject of a controversial €23m purchase by the Department of Education.

Plans for a drug rehabilitation in a Meath village by an off-shoot development of the Church of Scientology has received a setback today after An Bord Pleanála ruled saying that it is not exempt from planning permission.

Plans to build a new plastics factory in Skibbereen in Cork is facing fierce opposed from local campaigners.