Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman has led growing calls within the Green Party to review the decision to reopen the Phoenix Park to traffic. Surprised by OPW announcement that it's reopening all the Phoenix Park gates immediately. “Every single route in the Phoenix Park now becomes a rat run,” she told RTÉ radio’s Today with Sarah McInerney show on Friday. Speaking on the same programme, Mr O’Donovan defended the decision to reopen the park to traffic. The decision to reopen the gates was taken, he added, to allow the OPW to monitor traffic congestion on the western side of the park.

Source: The Irish Times July 11, 2020 08:57 UTC