State spends up to €80m acquiring half of controversial derelict ‘Carlton’ site

UK property group Hammerson sells beleaguered central Dublin development to State as part of €80m divestment

Plot which included area occupied by former Carlton cinema was to have been developed as a shopping centre by Hammerson

Land Development Agency to build cost-rental homes up to 12 storeys tall

Dublin city councillors approve €100 million borrowing for city library project at Parnell Square

Accommodation owned by firm associated with former Monaghan manager Séamus McEnaney

Independent councillor Mannix Flynn said he would have initiated legal action had the process not been stopped

Environmental partnership says illegal fly-tipping in scenic uplands is up by almost 30% this year

Derelict Fairview house ‘structurally unsound’ and will cost at least €200,000 to refurbish

Prolonged uncertainty should be recognised as ‘a form of social harm’, notes Trinity College Dublin research

Supporters praise pedestrian and cyclist priority in new €80m project, though concerns surround public order and maintenance of space

Council chief recommends 16 hectares of protected lands at St Edmundsbury, Lucan, be rezoned for housing

Objectors to planned housing at St Edmundsbury, Liffey valley say rezoning would be ‘an absolute disgrace’ and ‘tragic’ for the area

Under the council’s new scheme, it will own the stations and possibly also the bikes

Minister for Housing James Browne says conditions in inner city complex ‘absolutely atrocious, totally unacceptable’