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Ireland’s two largest homebuilders, Cairn Homes plc and Glenveagh Properties plc, are today applying to the High Court to seek a Judicial Review of the ne...

Leitrim County Councillors have backed an amendment in the 2023-2029 County Development Plan which discourages the planting and replanting of forestry on bogl...

Clare’s Green Senator believes the county is in a position to take the ‘lead’ on the country’s transition to renewable energy. Moneypoint Power Station is currently undergoing a 50 million euro transition to a green energy hub, with coal to stop burning there in two years’ time. It’s understood the draft County Development Plan currently […]

Residents in rural County Galway are living in fear of being burgled after one small area suffered at least 10 raids in the month of January. Councillor Mary Hoade told a meeting of the County Joint Policing Committee (JPC) this week that those figures were for around Headford alone, as she called for additional resources […]

‘HELL’ has been predicted, when people start to receive tax bills on zoned land in their ownership, under next year’s Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) regime. 

A DIRECTION from the Office of the Planning Regulator requesting Clare County Council to dezone huge tracts of land for development in the Draft 2023 to 2029 Clare County Development Plan has been criticised by local councillors.

The plan is a revision of the 2012 Plan

NATIONAL policy on rural Ireland has been condemned by a West Clare councillor, who said it has resulted in an “expensive refusal kit” for planning applications.

Locals opposed to a planned wind farm just a few kilometres outside of Kilkenny City are continuing their campaign to stop the development by EDF Renewables Ire...

Local get celebrity backing for their campaign of opposition