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Calls For Special Planning Status For Moore Street

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01:34 10 Apr 2015


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There's calls to turn the national monument at Moore Street into a historical and cultural quarter similar to how Temple Bar was redeveloped.

It follows the government's decision to buy the dilapidated site at 14 to 17 Moore Street once occupied by the volunteers during the 1916 rising.

Today Fianna Fail has published its vision for how the terrace should be developed, to commemorate where the rebels surrendered.

Senator Darragh O'Brien says the surrounding area should also be regenerated.. 

 

Relatives of the leaders of the 1916 Rising are backing the proposal to give special planning status to the area.

Patrick Cooney is the great-grandson of Thomas Clarke, who was executed by the British.

He says just buying the buildings isn't enough:


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