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A redevelopment of Dalymount Park in Phibsborough, north Dublin is expected to be approved today. Dublin City Councillors are expected to give the green light for the new Bohemian FC stadium at their monthly meeting. Under the long-awaited plans the existing stadium...

An Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a 12-storey office block and scaled down hotel proposal as part of a mixed use scheme for Heuston South Quarter for Kilmainham in Dublin 8. The ruling overturns a decision in 2022 by Dublin City Council to refuse planning...

Irish Distillers have been given planning permission for a €250m expansion in Midleton by Cork County Council. Some 800 jobs are expected during the 29-month construction phase. The proposed works include a new pot still building to be designed as a “unique feature...

A major €15 million redevelopment of a Letterkenny-based secondary school has been given the green light. Donegal County Council has given the go-ahead to the redevelopment at Errigal College, which will see the demolition of the existing school and the construction...

An Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a €300m apartment scheme to provide over 600 new housing units in south Dublin. The project provides for a mix of studios, apartments and duplex units over seven blocks ranging from two to 10 stories in height as well as a...

Danish company Novo Nordisk has submitted plans to South Dublin County Council that would see a new manufacturing plant built in Grange Castle business park, totalling almost 150,000 sq m in size. The €2bn project would generate 2,000 construction jobs and consultants...

Planning permission has been granted by Kerry County Council for a major pharmaceutical development in Tralee by Astellas, a Japanese pharmaceutical company that already has a base in Killorglin. The company is to invest more than €330 million in the state-of-the-art...

A planning application has been lodged with An Bord Pleanála for 708 new homes at Cherry Orchard in Dublin. The proposal, by The Land Development Agency and Dublin City Council, would be the second large development involving the two parties and the largest so far....

Great news for Longford with plans that will see the creation of 198 new lodges, external saunas and pods, a new lakeside restaurant and coffee shop as well as extension to a series of existing facilities at Center Parcs. It’s anticipated the expansion will create 300...

The addition of a second railway line to the existing track between Midleton and Glounthaune has been approved by An Bord Pleanála. The planning agency has officially granted a railway order for the upgrade of the 10km-long stretch of track between the village and...