{"id":313062,"date":"2026-02-23T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:39:07","slug":"clare-developer-fighting-20-year-planning-battle-says-no-one-will-put-a-gun-to-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313062\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Developer Fighting 20-Year Planning Battle Says No One Will &#8220;Put A Gun&#8221; To His Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clare developer who\u2019s been fighting for 20 years to get planning permission for a development on the site of a former pub says no one will \u201cput a gun\u201d to his head and stop him from achieving his aim.<\/p>\n<p>Noel O\u2019Loughlin has withdrawn an application for a mixed-use development, including assisted living houses, on the site of Purcell\u2019s Lounge Bar in Ruan due to wastewater connectivity issues.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the fifth time the Corofin native has attempted to get approval for a redevelopment of the building which was subject to an act of vanadalism earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>He says he intends to keep moving forward until the project is realised.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clare developer who\u2019s been fighting for 20 years to get planning permission for a development on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-313062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}