Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has defended his divisive co-living housing plan by claiming critics do not understand the policy and that the buildings are like "very trendy boutique hotels".

A Green MEP has said someone should lose their job if they do not increase the number of people using public transport to head to Croke Park.

Compass Homes Ltd was granted permission by the local authority last February, with 48 conditions, for the project at Coolfadda, which is 1.4 km to the west of Bandon town centre.

The future of a popular entertainment venue at Killarney Racecourse is under threat after it was refused retention planning permission by Kerry Co Council.

Plans for more than 1,300 homes have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.

Broadcaster, Pat Kenny has confirmed he is to provide financial support to a local residents' initiative in Dalkey seeking to challenge in the High Court a decision giving planning permission to a mixed use development for Bulloch Harbour.

The Government is facing calls to change laws to ban co-living units and stop them becoming "the norm" after a divisive "box apartment" development with rents of up to €1,300 a month was given the green light.

An Bord Pleanála has consented before the High Court to an order quashing its permission for construction of a thermoplastic compounds production facility in Skibbereen, Co Cork.

Campaigners against a proposed plastics factory in Skibbereen have hailed a High Court ruling that the issue be returned to An Bord Pleanála for consideration and a possible Natura Impact Statement.

A new report by An Bord Pleanála has illustrated the regional imbalance of large housing, apartment and student accommodation development proposals, with the vast majority located in the Dublin and commuter region.

A project aimed at ending the decades-long practice of discharging raw sewage into Cork Lower Harbour has taken a major step forward.

Plans for a 34-storey Cork city centre hotel, which would become Ireland’s tallest tower and twice the height of the 17-storey Elysian building, are finally revealed today by New York-based Irish developers.

A Co Kerry golf club has secured planning permission for an extension of its clubhouse, despite opposition from local publicans.

The proposed snail farm or heliculture business was intended to develop snail-based products, including premium organic snail meat, snail egg caviar and snail slime secretion.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A CORK suburban development site which sold for a very strong €3.5m less than two years ago, has been quielty returned to the market, at a c €2m mark-up, according to sources.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for an "iconic" €14m steel rollercoaster for Tayto Park as the operation of the ride would be too noisy for nearby residents.

A decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for more than 200 homes in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, has been quashed by the High Court.

Dublin Port Company is lodging an application with An Bord Pleanála for its second major capital development project.

Irish Water has said it hopes to have a new wastewater treatment facility in Clonshaugh up and running by 2026.