The development of a €180m motorway could have a “devastating” impact on Cork’s oldest 18-hole golf course unless major mitigation measures are put in place.

Carrigstown is on the move.

The promoters of a new amusement arcade for Fermoy are mounting a fresh challenge to a recent refusal to allow them open a new centre in the north Cork town.

Traders in one of Munster’s oldest suburban shopping centres have given a qualified welcomed to plans for a €100m regeneration of the complex.

One of Ireland’s first suburban shopping centres is set for a massive €100m redevelopment.

Councillors are warning that a proposed multi-million euro housing development cannot proceed in an already traffic-congested town without an advance major upgrade of a seriously inadequate road infrastructure.

Plans for the largest hotel to be built in Cork city centre have been put on hold, following objections by the owner of a private, third-level college building.

Burger King has successfully appealed a decision of Kerry Co Council to refuse it permission to extend the opening hours of its restaurant in Killarney on special weekends.

Tommy Barker reports on the house of the week in Berkeley, Beaumont, Cork

The Law Reform Commission (LRC) has published a paper proposing major changes as to how compulsory purchase orders (CPO) are conducted.

Johnny Ronan’s plans to go underground at one of Dublin’s best known Georgian Squares have fallen foul of city council planners.

A planning decision on a proposal to build a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour is due by Friday, almost two years behind schedule.

Plans for a small hydro-electric scheme near a south Kerry village have been shot down by the planning authorities because of concerns about its potential impact on the river network.

Planning permission has been granted for student apartments in Cork city centre.

Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae is involved in a planning row over his plans to convert a disused pub in Tralee into apartments.

An application for a large battery storage compound near an electricity substation on the Cork-Kerry border is being vigorously opposed by locals, who warn of a historic area being turned into “an industrial minefield”.

A community group in West Waterford could run into difficulty with planning laws over the unauthorised construction of a surfaced track near a local beauty spot.

The way has finally been cleared for the construction of 147 social and affordable homes on Cork’s northside on county land earmarked for transfer to the city.

Former defence minister Willie O’Dea last night sounded a Churchillian battle cry against €10m plans by Irish Cement Ltd to phase out the use of fossil fuels at its factory in Mungret, Co Limerick, in favour of used tyres and solid recovered waste.

A new multiplex cinema is to open in Killarney, Co Kery on the former site of one of the town’s best-known hotels.