Moore Street Trust to present alternative plans for street to Lord Mayor

The Moore Street Preservation Trust will present its alternative plan for the development of Moore Street to the Lord Mayor of Dublin in City Hall on Thursday, December 9 at 12pm.

This follows a request from the Department of Heritage that An Bord Pleanala seeks a revised design from UK development firm Hammerson for the area.

James Connolly Heron, great grandson of 1916 leader James Connolly, on behalf of the Trust and of Relatives of the Signatories to the 1916 Proclamation, said: “The policy of Dublin City Council on the development of the Moore Street area is clear.

“Moore Street is to be protected and preserved intact in its entirety.

“The terrace that was the last refuge of the volunteers is, by vote of the councillors, to be added to the list of protected structures.

“The evacuation route must be kept intact so that the story of the retreat to Moore Street can be told in the very streets and laneways that still stand today.”

A scale model of the scheme along with detailed renderings will be open to the public from 11am – 5pm.

“The elected representatives of the people have spoken,” Connolly Heron says.

“Any proposed development of this historic area must be subject to their wishes as policy makers in the interest of citizens.

“We urge councillors to support and adopt our plan as the way forward in ending the continuing uncertainty over an area described by The National Museum as ‘a theatre of conflict and the most important historic site in modern Irish history’.”