The way things are going in Sandymount, they'll be lucky if even the famous green is left undeveloped. The latest planning application for the area is from the YMCA, on Claremont Road, which wants no less than 66 apartments and penthouses and an underground car-park on its sports grounds. The club hopes to use part of the funds to replace the existing pavilion with a new club house and lay a new astro-turf pitch. These young christians must have taken their cue from the go-ahead YWCA, on nearby on St Johns Road, who made a killing by selling off their land, and a hostel, to Jackson Properties for apartment development.