Oireachtas Committee to Meet with Relatives of 1916 Leaders to Inspect Planned Redevelopment of Historical Moore Street Site
26th April 2010
Members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government will meet with the relatives of the 1916 leaders to inspect the impact of the proposed redevelopment of the Carlton Cinema Site on the historic buildings on Moore Street.
The Committee will meet with the relatives, tomorrow (27th) at 12 pm at the GPO.
Committee members will be given a tour of the area to consider the effects the development may have.
Relatives of the 1916 leaders have expressed concern by the decision by An Bord Plean la to grant permission for a major retail and residential development at the former Carlton cinema site. They fear the development will damage the integrity of the area which has significant historical interest encompassing much of the escape route from the GPO during the 1916 rising.
Numbers 14-17 Moore Street are now national monuments and featured the last stand of the Rising’s leaders.
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