Call For Moore Street Campaign To 'Step Up'

Sinn Fein has called for the campaign to save historic Moore Street in Dublin to be "stepped up".

The party is also urging for the street not to be left to a NAMA developer, Chartered Land, as it plans to engulf the National Monument into a giant shopping mall.

SF Cllr Mícheál Mac Donncha said: "The granting of consent by the last Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs Jimmy Deenihan for the developer to proceed with works on and around 14-17 Moore St. is by no means the end of the matter. The consent of City Council planners and Councillors to further steps is required before the developer can proceed.


"We in Sinn Féin, as the largest party on Dublin City Council are very clear. We will do all in our power to prevent the Chartered Land plan from going ahead. Instead we want to see Moore St. and the 'lanes of history' developed as an Historic 1916 Quarter."

(CD)