Sinn Féin has hit out over plans to extend a shopping centre in Dublin.

The party said if planning is approved it would demolish most of the East side of Moore Street.

A High Court decision declared the site a National Monument which came into effect on 20 May.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD said it is "farcical" given that the High Court judgement comes into full effect in two weeks if no appeal is lodged.

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Deputy Ó Snodaigh said: "It would make a mockery of a judicial decision if the recent High Court's judgement is ignored and not heeded in the adjudicating on the planning permission extension application.

"We are appealing with planners not to give the go ahead to any plans which would take away from the historic Moore Street battlefield site. Our National Monument cannot be supplanted by a shopping centre."

(CD/JP)