Super stylish penthouse at de Blacam and Meagher-designed Wooden Building in Temple Bar for €1 million – The Irish Times

Address: 17 The Wooden Building, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 Price: €1,000,000 Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Completed in 2000, the de Blacam and Meagher-designed Wooden Building still demonstrates real creative thinking in construction and is a very special property. The boutique apartment block of 17 units was inspired by the timber construction of medieval … Read more

Private investor pays €3.15m for Dublin 8 site that featured in The Commitments – The Irish Times

A private Irish investor has paid €3.15 million for 36-37 Harrington Street and Archbishop Byrne Hall in Dublin 8. The price paid represents premium of 26 per cent on the €2.5 million agent Colliers had been guiding when it brought the property to the market last October. The sale of the buildings was concluded following … Read more

Portobello’s new Italian restaurant from the people behind Uno Mas and Etto – The Irish Times

The news before Christmas that Locks Restaurant on Windsor Terrace in Portobello was to close and reopen under new management unsettled more than a few regulars of this much-loved, neighbourhood haven tucked away along a leafy canal-bank setting. When the news emerged, for some it was a change too far in a dining landscape that … Read more

Developer Joe O’Reilly gets permission for 316 apartments near Heuston Station in Dublin – The Irish Times

Developer Joe O’Reilly has secured planning permission for a €124 million, 316-unit apartment scheme in two blocks with one rising to 13 storeys at Parkgate Street in Dublin 8. In the Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) scheme close to Heuston Station, Mr O’Reilly’s Ruirside Developments is planning to construct two apartment blocks with one rising … Read more

Two plain-clothes Garda detectives stop armed robbery in Dublin shop – TheJournal.ie

Two plain-clothes Garda detectives stop armed robbery in Dublin shop  TheJournal.ie Masked man foiled in armed robbery, as two detectives were in shop buying their lunch at the time  Irish Independent Two plainclothes gardaí foil attempted armed robbery at store in Dublin  Irish Examiner Man armed with gun threatens plain clothes garda during robbery in Kilmainham  Dublin Live Man … Read more

Hundreds of Dublin homes at risk of damage after partial collapse of house into river – The Irish Times

Hundreds of Dublin homes are potentially at risk of damage following the partial collapse of a house in Inchicore into the river Camac earlier this month, a senior Dublin City Council engineer has said. Ellen Blehein (32) and her husband Robert (30) had to move out of their home on Tyrconnell Street, Inchicore, last week … Read more