Dublin City Council is to up the ante in its bid to clamp down on illegal short-term lets in the city. The local authority estimates that Airbnb removed 2,000 housing units from the residential market last year. New rules were brought in for Airbnb properties in July in a bid to ease the housing crisis, […]

If you’ve ever received feedback that you “need to be more strategic,” you know how frustrating it can feel. To add insult to injury, the feedback rarely comes with any concrete guidance on what to do about it. So what specific steps can you take to be more strategic in your current role? Start by […]

Galway City Council had one of the highest rates of appealed planning decisions in the country last year, according to a new report from An Bord Pleanála. According to the Board’s Annual Report for 2018, there were 378 planning decisions made last year by the City Council. Of these, 42 were appealed (11.1%), which was […]

Cork City Council’s new Strategic Policy Committees (SPCs) met yesterday afternoon for the first time for an information and briefing session in advance of their first official meetings. The SPCs are committees of council that advise and assist the Council in the formulation, development and review of policy of a strategic nature. The SPCs make […]

Following advice from the Health Service Executive, Irish Water and Mayo County Council have issued a Boil Water Notice for those businesses and customers supplied by the Knock Airport Public Water Supply. This also affects Cloonlyon Group Water Scheme along with Knock Airport, Cloonlyon National School and approximately 15 households. The Boil Water Notice has […]

Limerick City and County Council has lodged an objection to the EPA licence granted to Irish Cement to allow the co-incineration of waste at the Mungret plant.  Limerick City and County Council had originally made a detailed submission on the licence application, raising questions on multiple issues, in particular

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Minister for European Affairs, Helen McEntee travel to Brussels today for a meeting of the European Council. The Taoiseach will join his fellow EU27 Heads of State and Government, as well as President of the European Council Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker and EU Chief Negotiator Michel […]

Developer Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore Group will submit a fast-track planning application to An Bord Pleanála today for the development of a 23-storey apartment block in Dublin city centre. The proposed tower forms part of the wider Connolly Quarter mixed-use scheme, Ballymore and its Singapore-headquartered partner, Oxley Holdings, are aiming to deliver on a 2.88 hectare

Mr. Eoghan Murphy, T.D., Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government today, Tuesday 15 October 2019, announced allocations under the new capital investment programme for water services in rural areas.  The new Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme is to run from 2019 to 2021. Proposals for capital funding for individual projects were invited earlier in