It has issued a tender for a feasibility study. The documents include few details, but they do confirm the likely future uses for the historic building.
The council plans to sell it off to a private developer, as part of its strategy to create a super depot in Ballymun for its waste-management services.
Part of the facade was apparently removed just before councillors voted to start the process of putting the building on the list of protected structures.
In their monthly meeting, Dublin city councillors passed a new litter plan for the city, disposed of a few council buildings, and debated whether the College Green 1916 banner should be dragged from the front of the Bank of Ireland.
The building would be protected if it weren’t for a clerical error. Now there’s talk of tearing it down to make way for an access road to a site behind it.
DIT’s move from a constellation of Southside sites to a consolidated Grangegorman campus will shift tens of thousands of students, changing communities.
Green Party Councillor Patrick Costello has come up with a three-pronged plan to deal with Dublin’s dog poo: bins, fines and – tentatively – doggy DNA.
