Planning
‘Recipe for disaster’: Mary Lou McDonald hits out at O’Connell street redevelopment plans
Sinn Féin leader asked planning authority to block plans to create new pedestrian link between O'Connell Street Upper and Henry Place
Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Sinn Féin, has labelled plans by a British property giant to convert a historic building on O’Connell Street into a new arched passageway as a “recipe for a planning disaster” that will “contribute nothing to the city”.
Hammerson, the British property giant that owns the Ilac Centre and Dundrum Town Centre, has plans to redevelop a series of long-underutilised buildings on O’Connell Street, Henry Street and Moore Street, which ...