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Blue flags: Record number of Irish beaches and marinas win award for 2025
Kerry has most blue flags with 15, while Cork has most green coast awards with 14
See inside a slice of architectural heritage: Boyne Valley mansion and 250-acre estate for €10.15m
Restored 11-bed Palladian pile and three lodges, two gate lodges, a church and equestrian facilities
Rotunda building plan likened to ‘brick-clad cruise liner docked on Parnell Square’
Hospital says large-scale project is ‘critical’ to meeting needs of patients but heritage group criticises impact on Georgian Dublin
Dublin’s north inner city remains Ireland’s dirtiest place, says anti-litter lobby
Dublin City Council ban on the use of plastic refuse sacks to be extended to north inner city this year
Drogheda data centre would compromise ability to comply with carbon limits, An Taisce warns
Company seeks planning permission for three-storey facility
Glen o’ the Downs land at centre of campaign was previously sold by Coillte
NGOs and locals want Government to buy back land that State forestry company sold
National Parks and Wildlife Service ‘will consider’ buying land beside Glen of the Downs
Noonan warns purchase price would represent ‘some of the most expensive land in the country’
Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre planning appeal decision delayed
An Bord Pleanála was to have published its decision on September 23rd
Apartment scheme intended for Joyce’s The Dead building is substandard, says council
Dublin City Council has requested Brimwood UC submit revised drawings with a reduction in the number of proposed units
Google data centre expansion draws ire of environmental groups
An Taisce, Friends of the Earth and Extinction Rebellion all object to third phase of Grange Castle development
High Court to ask European forum to decide issues linked to validity of nitrate derogation measures
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said An Taisce’s case raised novel, complex and important issues of EU law
Senior counsel behind debt advisory group snaps up gorgeous Georgian mansion
Plus: Mary Hanafin called to the Bar, Danny Healy-Rae’s quarry quarrel, and Damo and Ivor’s pigeon pursuits
Dublin City Council refuses planning permission for Baggot Street guest house
Seven-storey facility with 30 bedrooms planned
Traffic plan will cost Dublin €400m a year, says report for traders opposed to car curbs
Economic analysis submitted to council chief Richard Shakespeare warns of job losses
Dublin City Council chief spurns commuter, environmental and health groups opposed to watering down of transport plan
Richard Shakespeare ‘unavailable’ to meet civil society groups concerned about changes to and potential delay of proposals
Dublin City Centre Transport Plan: Council urged to reverse ‘last minute changes’ to proposal
Civil society groups seek meeting with Dublin City Council chief executive Richard Shakespeare
Deposit return scheme reduces can and bottle litter
Significant decrease in litter in towns and cities except for Dublin city which remains a ‘blot on the landscape’, report shows
Blue Flags 2024: Beaches in Dublin, Wexford and Waterford lose out. Check how your local area fared
Beaches in Sligo, Meath and Galway gain flags while Rush South, Tramore and Ballymoney North lose awards due to deterioration of water quality
Irish hedgerows face ‘wide-scale’ threat after outbreaks of fireblight disease
Hawthorn most vulnerable to bacterial threat arising from imported plants, say environmental groups
Ambassador Theatre operators refused permission for defensive railings
Historic building threatened by fires, vandalism, blood, urine, vomit and ‘human excrement’, operators claimed
Electricity prices must fall to keep multinationals investing here, IDA warns
An Taisce warns that data centres dilute renewable gains
Historic house in Co Sligo in danger of collapse after years of decline
Storms and neglect leave Templeview House, near Easkey, under serious threat of being lost to future generations
Minister briefed by UK authorities about Sellafield leak and alleged cyberattack
Green Party Minister of State Ossian Smyth sought briefing following claims the UK nuclear site had been hacked by cyber groups linked to Russia and China
State’s nitrates plan breaches environmental laws and should be struck down, An Taisce tells court
Challenger wants a reference to CJEU to determine validity of nitrate derogation granted to Ireland
Government pressed to reveal how much it knew about reported Sellafield leak
Nuclear site on England’s north-west coast has long been a source of contention between Ireland and UK
Lough Hyne in west Cork is in trouble and action is needed
Deep sea-lake was a hotbed of biodiversity, designated Europe’s first marine nature reserve, but life is now draining away from it
Algal bloom in Blessington lakes described as dangerous to humans and pets
An Taisce warns bloom is an early warning sign for pollution which hit Lough Neagh
Beach clean-up: significant drop in litter collected due to bad weather, says Clean Coasts
About 120 clean-up events organised for weekend cancelled or postponed
Bombscares, gossip and scented rubbers: the school journey remembered
The number of children walking, cycling or taking the bus to school has dropped over recent decades. A new project shows how formative these journeys were for previous generations
Permission refused for penthouse suite on top of new Ship Street hotel in Dublin
Eamon Waters’s Sretaw wanted to add a penthouse to its forthcoming Chancery Hotel in Dublin
Heritage groups urge State to buy last great Georgian mansion built in Dublin
Call comes as permission expires for Aldborough House office redevelopment
Ireland further off-track on climate targets than EPA calculations, experts warn
An Taisce analysis urges emergency actions due to gap between climate ambition and facts as excess emissions not being factored into subsequent carbon budgets
Case study: People ‘don’t see what we’ve lost’ in biodiversity crisis
Scale of biodiversity loss to date in Ireland ‘terrifying’, An Taisce officer says
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