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Dublin rally hears calls for Government intervention to ‘save’ Moore Street

The area housed the headquarters for the leaders of the Easter Rising in the final stages of the 1916 insurrection.

CAMPAIGNERS FOR THE preservation of a derelict Dublin street synonymous with the 1916 Easter Rising have held a rally calling for Government intervention.

The event was organised by the Moore Street Preservation Trust, whose membership includes descendants of the rebels who staged the insurrection against British rule.

The leaders of the rising retreated from the GPO on O’Connell Street to a row of terraced houses on Moore Street in the final stages of the rising.

Revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse formally surrendered to the Crown forces on the street.

Four properties in the red brick terrace row – 14 to 17 – are designated as a national monument and there are plans to turn them into a museum.

However, there are commercial plans to develop the rest of the street – proposals that would see the demolition of homes adjacent to the national monument.

Dublin City Council recently granted permission for two applications to develop parts of Moore Street and nearby Henry Street.

The applications by UK developers Hammerson were part of its masterplan to regenerate the wider area around O’Connell Street on the north side of the city centre.

2.64884554 Campaigner Mícheál Mac Donncha speaks during a rally on Moore Street Damien Storan / PA Images Damien Storan / PA Images / PA Images

More than 200 demonstrators gathered for the rally on Saturday afternoon.

They heard calls for Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien to intervene by issuing preservation orders that would prevent demolition.

On-street trading

Mícheál Mac Donncha, the secretary of the Moore Street Preservation Trust, said the area should be “sensitively” regenerated as a historic quarter, along with the return of on-street market trading.

“We are calling for Minister Darragh O’Brien to intervene,” the Sinn Féin councillor and former Dublin lord mayor said.

“He can withhold consent from the developer’s proposed works which impinge on the national monument.”

Hammerson says its plans will “appropriately regenerate a historic part of Dublin”, ensuring the retention and celebration of its “long-standing traditions and important heritage”.

The campaigners are intending to appeal the planning approvals to An Bord Pleanala.

A spokesman for O’Brien’s department said the minister is precluded under legislation from “commenting or getting involved in relation to any individual planning case”.

He said the Moore Street Advisory Group presented its final report to the minister last year.

“This report included recommendations in relation to the national monument at 14-17 Moore Street as well as recommendations for the future development of the wider Moore Street area. This report was noted by Cabinet in May 2021,” he said.

“The Moore Street Advisory Group recommended in its report to the ministers that the process embarked on by the Office of Public Works (OPW) and the National Monuments Service of the department to restore the national monument and open it up to the public as soon as possible should continue.

“Officials from both this department and the OPW have been liaising to progress this.

“It is understood that the OPW are in the process of appointing a team to carry out phase one essential works to the monument, which will ensure stability and provide a pathway for the phase two completion works themselves at the monument.”

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    Mute Ciaran Dunne
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 8:15 AM

    The government needs to up their game to preserve part of our heritage especially in this our centenary year . For those who gave their tomorrow’s for our today’s.

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    Mute pistachio 32
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 8:39 AM

    @Ciaran Dunne: Moore Street is falling down. Its literally an eye sore

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 9:56 AM

    @pistachio 32: so wha

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 11:59 AM

    @pistachio 32: much like other streets and areas of the city, the buildings have been allowed to deteriorate so there’s then justification for ‘redecelopment’. There are more than enough vacant shopping mall units in the vicinity and the development of choice now seems to be hotels. We need to put a stop to allowing developers and their profit margins dictate how the city will look like in the future.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 12:09 PM

    @EillieEs: this is the point I’ve made below. What is wrong with the idea of a dedicated museum? And development keeping in line with the historical part of the city. Of all the areas that should and can be preserved I don’t understand why such a stand is being made in Moore St. If ever there was a street in Dublin City where ya feel like ya need eyes in the back of your head. Moore Street is it.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 12:40 PM

    @Ciaran Dunne: It is Ironic that a street synonymous with the heroes of the 1916 Rising against British rule is now subject to a planning row with a British development company. Talk about history repeating itself.

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    Jan 24th 2022, 9:56 AM

    @Ciaran Dunne: they literally are spending taxpayers money to try overturn a decision by the courts to protect Moore street the way the relatives want. They are using public money to fight on behalf of foreign corporate vested interests. Sound familiar?

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    Mute pistachio 32
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 8:35 AM

    Moore Street is in bits. Has been for a long time. As is alot of these places that development is going on. To be honest anything would be better than what is standing in some of Dublin City. Why protect dereliction??

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 9:57 AM

    @pistachio 32: if you have to ask that question you need to re visit your history book

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:06 AM

    @Bodyfit Aloe Aloe: I love historical. I’m all for preservation where preservation works. I love Georgian Dublin. Moore Street is just a kip. Let’s be honest.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 12:10 PM

    @pistachio 32: in bits to you but the oriental pantry and african shops have great fresh fish, veg you don’t get in Super Value and spices/chillis etc. Also fresh fruit and flowers from the stalls and quality butchers. Your “in bits” is where a lot of people love to get their weekly shop. What will development bring to the aera, couple of fancy shops, kick out the stalls and food shops, rip the soul away from the street.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 1:31 PM

    @Dave McCabe: Absolutely

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    Mute Lisa Jones
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 9:12 AM

    Yes the area needs some rejuvenation but it’s a bit ironic to be handing it over to a UK company to do it! They just won’t care about Irish history, probably never even heard of the 1916 rising.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 9:50 AM

    @pistachio 32: and that’s why it needs to be preserved and restored. Tourists visit cities and places that are unique. Shopping malls are ten a penny and can be visited anywhere. I’ve visited places abroad that are nothing but high rise shopping centres and to be honest I won’t be back to them ever. That’s what could happen to our towns and cities if we’re not careful. As a young man living in England I once had one of my co workers visit home with me once. To this day when we talk he still remarks on the sights and sounds of Moore Street back then when it was in it’s heyday.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 11:08 AM

    @Marcus Mac An Bhaird: I just don’t understand what is wrong with the original idea of the museum on the street. Along with a little bit of thought and planning which the developers have already promised it could make a really wonderful area. There are alot of streets, places and buildings that should be preserved. I just don’t see any benefit in keeping Moore Street the way it is. It’s not exactly a tourist attraction the way it is.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 11:26 AM

    @Marcus Mac An Bhaird: sounds like your friend doesn’t get out much

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 12:42 PM

    I’m afraid the protesters are hanging onto some romanticised vision of Moore St in its heyday. As someone who buys fruit from the stalls on a weekly basis it’s disappointing to see people emerge from the nearby Lidl with arms full of fruit. This is the way of the world however, people have changed their shopping habits with the widespread closures of butchers being another example. The street needs to be redeveloped, the protests in recent years have guaranteed a museum, the people who protested and achieved this need to be applauded. But enough, it’s time the street moved with the times because as is it’s an absolute eyesore.

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 11:19 AM

    We’ve had 100 years to do something with the area and decided to let it go to ruin. Who is going to bring the cash to do a development that will suit these protesters? Maybe wait another 100 years?

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 1:49 PM

    There is no point is asking the Government to save Moore St. when they are fully behind its destruction. It is derelict because it was deliberately allowed to become so in order to justify what is happening now.

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