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A look behind the stories with Róisín Burke

The proposed Sky Garden off O’Connell Street, Dublin

O’Reilly gives up sky garden dream

It was to be a €1 billion garden- in-the sky transformation of Dublin’s north inner city, and it might still happen – but if it does, it will be proceeding without the developer Joe O’Reilly.

“Just with delays and one thing and another, it was time to move on,” the developer tells me of his decision to end his involvement.

The six-acre prime site off O’Connell Street ...