School buildings for almost 1,300 children from pre-school to Leaving Certificate are to begin construction next year in the Cork town of Carrigaline.

THE delays around finalising the location of the national children’s hospital in Dublin may have set the benchmark for prevarication, political featherbedding, professional disagreement, inexplicable decisions and just plain, unacceptable time wasting in public projects in Ireland. The delivery of that facility is a snail-paced saga of a different colour.

The residents of Temple Bar are a battle-hardened bunch of people. Some might well question their sanity for moving into the area in the first place.

The Department of Housing is to issue guidelines to all local authorities to give them clarity when dealing with Airbnb properties.

John Malone has applied for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton Hotel on Grand Canal.

The expert group charged with reviewing Cork’s local government will have access to all documents compiled by the committee that recommended the controversial merger of the city and county councils.

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It is estimated internationally that 6% of the wells the frackers bore through the rock will leak, writes Victoria White.

More than 400 students could get to live in purpose-built Cork City centre accommodation as part of revisions to the long-awaited events centre.

Apple has been given the go-ahead to begin work on its planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.