PLANS by a Cork-based firm to convert the closed Two Mile Inn hotel on the Clare-Limerick border into a nursing home are in doubt.

CORK county engineer Noel O’Keeffe is to lead a delegation to Dublin in an attempt to get the €800 million Cork-Limerick motorway back on track.

Earthquakes and polluted water supplies are blamed on the gas extraction process ‘fracking’ now mooted for Ireland, says Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan

THE path looks clear for Cork’s new €150 million concert venue to proceed in the city centre as developer Owen O’Callaghan is ending his rival bid for a docklands venue.

AN BORD Pleanála has given the green light for a €150 million development, including a 6,000-seat event centre, on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery in Cork city.

While it sticks rigidly to best practice in its operations and avoids environmental issues that plague other sites, Bottlehill landfill has serious problems, writes Claire O’Sullivan

A TOWN has been gripped by a moving statue saga that has led to heated exchanges between politicians, clergy and hospital managers.

A MEDICAL centre in Killarney has secured planning retention but strict conditions have been imposed by An Bord Pleanála.

LEGAL actions brought by An Taisce and others over the manner in which consents were granted for the Corrib gas project have been settled and withdrawn at the High Court.

A 360-degree viewing platform, with panoramic coastal views, will form part of a planned €100 million wind farm.

PLANS for a “unique tourism product” on the Burren has been thrown out by An Bord Pleanála.

AN TAISCE has joined heritage campaigners in lodging an appeal against plans for a €150 million redevelopment of the Beamish and Crawford site in Cork.

AN TAISCE has joined heritage campaigners in lodging an appeal against plans for a €150 million redevelopment of the Beamish and Crawford site in Cork.

PROPERTY mogul, Sean Dunne, has been granted planning permission for a major residential, hotel and retail development at the D4Hotels site in Ballsbridge in Dublin.

IRELAND is finally in compliance with European law protecting wildlife 20 years after the legislation was first introduced.

Inevitably some wit is going to suggest that the EU Birds and Habitats Directives signed into law yesterday by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan is for the birds.

THE notion of total immersion in the Irish language is being taken to new lengths by a Gaelscoil which will move to a former swimming pool next year.

HERITAGE body An Taisce has welcomed the decision by Transport Minister Leo Varadkar to put a stop to what it described as “the Metro West folly”.

A WEST Clare businessman has emerged victorious in a planning battle with two other businessman over the provision of a new retail space in Miltown Malbay.

THE recent refusal of planning permission for a toxic and municipal incinerator by An Bord Pleanala means the Cork people can now value their harbour, the biggest natural harbour in Europe and the most fortified harbour in the world. The tourist potential for our forts and Spike Island is vast.