Locals to challenge Bord Pleanála planning go-ahead for 225 residential units

Community council says it fears ‘significant overdevelopment’ of the Kildare town

Both cases involve permission for apartment schemes

Moves to restrict rental-only schemes come amid a rash of applications for BTRs

All but five of 116 Strategic Housing Initiative projects involve ‘material contravention’

In rival action, developer says appeal should be blocked as it is being funded by third party

Plan would allow ‘significant overdevelopment’ of south Dublin site, applicants claim

Patrick Costello taking High Court action over constitutionality of parts of agreement

Developer dealt blow in long battle over harbour apartments and shops

Department of Justice produces Data Protection Bill which will undermine privacy rights in Republic

So deep are the problems that actions for damages may be brought and convictions quashed

Card project will fail unless mass harvesting of personal data conforms to EU privacy laws