With Metrolink over a decade away, more car spaces is the only short-term option to tackle parking pressure at Dublin Airport. But recent decisions from local and national authorities are not helping matters.
At peak season, the Cliffs of Moher car park takes in more than €100,000 per day. A long-running legal dispute between local businessmen and Clare County Council will determine who's entitled to that income.
In a new book, Infrastructure Projects and Local Communities, stakeholder engagement consultant Garry Keegan advocates for deeper and earlier public consultation with local people to get necessary projects such as wind farms across the line.
Is Ireland really governed by feckless eejits and the pages of its newspapers filled with hacks and jokers? Are we incapable of turning big ideas into reality? More detail, not less, is key to solving those questions.
The housing need demand assessment artificially suppresses housing in the east of the country. It needs to go.
The environmental watchdog is taking a stronger enforcement stance on peat extraction in the midlands and wants local authorities to follow suit. New documents reveal how they are doing.
The risk of a riot is, in the grand scheme of things, minimal. The risk of being injured by a car is far greater. This is what makes Dublin City Council's car-centric response to the riots so perplexing.
Ireland's planning system is unusal for how it relies on individual planner discretion. A provision in the new planning bill would, in certain circumstances, replace planner discretion with objective rules.
An Bord Pleanála has told the local authority to remove two sites owned by Roadstone and a religious order from its residential-zoned land tax map. The Council is still in the process of reviewing and updating multiple local area plans.
Complex rules and decades of inaction in tackling unlicensed activity have left the courtroom as the last avenue for change. The environmental watchdog is now leading the charge.
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