Planning go-ahead for soccer pitches and much more at Alfie Byrne Road
“It started out as a football project and it's turned into a game changer for the area and surrounding areas,” says John Hayden, the chairman of Belvedere Football Club.
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When designs for the new-look plaza at the corner of South Great George’s Street and Dame Lane went before councillors last year, they said it looked like a hotel entrance.
A giant colourful candle holder stood atop the O’Connell Plinth for two years until May 2023. Since then, nothing.
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“It was hugely dispiriting,” says Labour Councillor Darragh Moriarty, who chairs Dublin City Council’s arts committee.
Gardaí need to “send everybody away as soon as they turn up with their bags of cans and their bottles of wine”, says Fine Gael Councillor David Coffey.
The chains might be coming off the gate into the Victorian public toilet at the New Street South and Kevin Street Upper junction.
The project would retrofit the existing building, and add extensions, to increase the number of homes from 38 to 53.
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So the council will have more than a €1 million more to spend this year.
The council has published a draft master plan for the site, and is running a public consultation on it until 11 August.
Last year, the council left €500,000 in National Transport Authority funding for bus stop improvements on the table.