The Heritage Minister has refused to rule out an appeal over the High Court's judgement to declare Moore Street in Dublin a national monument.

Sinn Féin's Aengus Ó Snodaigh criticised Minister Heather Humphreys and said it is 'outrageous' that the state 'defended the destruction of most important site in modern Irish history.'

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Deputy Ó Snodaigh said: "A phenomenal victory was secured last Friday. It beggars belief that it took the relatives of our 1916 heroes to take that case and to bring it to court. The fact is that if the judgement had not gone ahead, Moore Street would have been destroyed.

"We must respect the verdict of the court and preserve Moore Street as a revolutionary quarter.

"It is vital that the incoming government honours the battlefield site and builds on its potential, not auction it off to the highest bidder as the outgoing government have attempted to do."

(CD/JP)