Ireland

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action has formally launched a landmark report designed to frame climate policy in Ireland for the next 15 years.

The go-ahead for the country’s tallest building in the heart of Dublin has been branded a ‘catastrophic error’ that could scupper the capital’s chance of World Heritage Site status for its historic core.

Developer Cairn Homes has been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála for a residential scheme of 377 flats in seven blocks up to eight storeys high in the Marino area of north Dublin.

Media reports this week have suggested that the government’s recently established Land Development Agency is contemplating building up to 600 flats on land owned by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, in south Dublin.