Colin Broderick on 10 31, 2009 | No Comments
TIM O'BRIEN THE FIRST tracks of phase one of the reopening of the Dublin-Navan railway line were laid yesterday. The 7.5-km double-track line begins at Clonsilla where it will branch off from the Ma
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CHARLIE TAYLOR [singlepic id=6 w=320 h=240 float=left]The amount of electricity generated by Ireland’s wind farms broke the 1,000 megawatts (MW) barrier for the first time last weekend, providing e
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MORE than 400,000 homeowners will be forced to buy a licence for their septic tank under new laws planned for next year. Yesterday, Environment Minister John Gormley said he would introduce a
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A PLANNING application for what Michael Lowry TD has described as “the most sophisticated and ambitious project that Ireland has ever seen” will be lodged with North Tipperary County Council this
Read MoreColin Broderick on 10 27, 2009 | No Comments
[singlepic id=12 w=100 h=79 float=left]FINGAL'S new County Development Plan must be agreed by April 2011 with the first draft expected to go on public display next March. Councillors met last week
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A LONG-awaited local area plan for Rivermeade in St Margaret's will be completed by the middle of next year, according to Fingal County Council. Cllr Tom Kelleher (Lab) put a motion to a meeting of
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[singlepic id=11 w=420 h=340 float=left]BUS journey times through Dublin city centre have fallen by half since the controversial bus gGate started operating last July. City traders claim the
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THE FINAL stage of work to replace one of Iarnród Éireann’s three railway crossings of the Shannon, a bridge near Lough Tap, between Dromod and Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Leitrim, gets under way tod
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AN BORD Pleanála has deferred a key decision due to be have been delivered yesterday on the controversial Corrib gas onshore pipeline in north Mayo. The appeals board told The Irish Times that Shel
Read MoreColin Broderick on 10 24, 2009 | No Comments
[singlepic id=9 w=109 h=124 float=left]AN BORD Pleanalá’s handsome looking annual report for 2008 contained no great surprises. The workload was down 16 per cent on the previous bumper year;
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