A farmer who faces the risk of losing his 100-acre dairy holding said yesterday it was like a sword over his head, after a High Court judge put off a decision on who will pay the costs of a six-day court challenge to a €70m Tipperary windfarm.

An ESB subsidiary has lodged an application for a windfarm spanning more than 30 townlands across Cork and Kerry.

The Dublin offices of international legal firm Maples and Calder have put on hold plans by Irish Life to construct a €20m six-storey office block on a landmark St Stephen’s Green site.

A new education/arts use is being pencilled in for a high profile Cork city centre building by the proposed events centre/Brewery Quarter, which is being sold for well over €1 million.

The resurrected plan to build a new town with 5,800 houses on the northern outskirts of Cork City will go to An Bord Pleanála again after a number of groups and individuals objected to it.

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland has launched a housing policy which could help to deliver sustainable housing solutions as the country’s population grows to almost 6m over the next 30 years.

The Dalata Group has secured planning permission for a €36m plan to transform its Clayton Hotel Dublin Airport into one of the largest in the country.

Plans for a development of more than 30 new homes in the southside suburbs of Cork have been lodged.

Indaver is to apply once more to impose incineration on the residents of Cork Harbour. 

A proposed wind farm development in North Tipperary which had been challenged in the High Court by local residents and environmentalists, has been given the go-ahead by a judge.

Property group, Green Reit has won its planning battle with An Taisce over its plans to demolish a landmark building and erect a new six-storey office block on Dublin’s Dawson Street.

A major new office and mixed commercial scheme in Georgian Dublin has been approved by An Bord Pleanála. It related to plans to demolish 20th-century buildings on the development site, a block incorporating parts of Fitzwilliam Street Lower and Mount Street Upper in Dublin 2, and which currently include ESB’s headquarters.

The Port of Waterford is to seek a judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant planning permission for the €100m expansion of the Port of Cork.

Indaver, with the knowledge of Environment Ministers Alan Kelly and Paudie Coffey, is again attempting to foist its outdated, dirty incinerators on Cork Harbour.

The developers of the site where U2 recorded some of their best-loved albums have entered a battle with Dublin City Council over a disputed Luas Red Line payment of almost €500,000.

The endangered fresh water pearl mussel has struck again – this time to knock back another large scale, €54m wind-farm in west Clare.

A busy holiday park in Co Waterford has been informed that it requires planning permission for the caravans it keeps on its large camping site.

An Taisce has appealed to heritage minister Heather Humphries to intervene in the conservation of an early medieval site earmarked for a multi-million euro tourist development.

The Port of Cork Company has been granted planning by An Bord Pleanála for a container terminal at Ringaskiddy, despite senior inspectors having advised rejection of permission. Following rejection of their application in 2008, due to inadequate roads and no rail facilities, Port of Cork nevertheless proceeded with a container facility at Ringaskiddy in 2012.

Work started this week on a multi-million euro sewage project to end the daily discharge into Cork Harbour of 20 tonnes of raw sewage — the equivalent of three Olympic-size swimming pools.