Full coverage: Planning

The commission has outlined a need to radically redesign housing policy and give a clear pathway for building new homes. If not, we will be talking about a growing housing deficit for years to come.

Last year, the developer Greg Kavanagh claimed a neighbour to the proposed housing project in Ashford, Co Wicklow had tried to extort millions off him. The woman in question has struck back, alleging bullying and intimidation by the developers.

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.