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Commercial construction costs are rising at the lowest rate in five years, according to a new report from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI). The SCSI's Tender Price Index (TPI) shows the annual median rate of inflation for last year was 2.5%...

The first sod on Ireland's international cricket stadium will be turned at the National Sports Campus in March as Cricket Ireland prepare to co-host the ICC T20 World Cup in 2030 alongside England and Scotland. Planning permission has been granted for the 4,000-odd...

Details of Irish clothing retail giant Penneys revised expansion plans for its Cork city centre store are revealed in a new planning application which proposes a 6,000 sq ft extension. The development would bring several long-vacant units back into use, including the...

AN COIMISIÚN PLEANÁLA (ACP) has granted planning permission to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for plans to construct three new data centres in north Dublin. In the ruling, three years after plans were first lodged in December 2022, Universal Developers LLC has secured...

The vision for the Cork Events Centre has taken a step closer to reality after a preliminary business case (PBC) for delivery of the project was submitted to the Department of Housing, Heritage & Local Government - a key step to begin the tendering process. The...

Planning permission has been granted for some 934 homes on the site of the former Central Mental Hospital. The development will see the construction of 753 new affordable for sale and cost rental homes, as well as 181 social homes. The development will comprise a mix...

Merry Christmas from all at Brightpath Recruitment.

Uisce Éireann is going to submit a planning application this week for the largest-ever water project in Irish history. The project aims to provide Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow with a “resilient, safe, secure water supply” through a 170km pipeline. If the...

Iarnród Éireann has confirmed it is to seek planning permission for a major transformation of Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford. The plans propose an almost doubling in size of the existing port and the construction of a landmark facility that will allow for the...

Plans to upgrade the N11-M11, a new DART station for Spencer Dock, an extension of DART services to Wicklow Town and a raft of other road projects have been confirmed in the government’s new national transport plan. The plan commits to the construction of the DART+...