Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
The chapel on the ground floor is too small for a theatre “but it's the kind of place where you could have recitals, a piano player or string quartet”, says Diego Fasciati, the executive director.
Respondents mostly felt that the partnership provided a forum for inter-agency collaboration but that it needed more resources and better staffing to work.
“Chances are, in Dublin, if it has buddleia growing on it, it’s owned by the local authority,” says Ciarán Cuffe, the Green Party former MEP. “And that is not the way it should be.”
“Closure of laneways in the city are only considered as a last resort,” says a council spokesperson, although the council has closed at least five routes recently.
Surrounded by hoardings, “this site seriously detracts from the centre and from the main street of Ballymun”, says Fianna Fáil Councillor Keith Connolly.
Councillors say it’ll probably be used for something water-related – and that they haven’t ruled out a lido yet, despite what a council spokesperson said.
