Last week Olivia Kelly reported in The Irish Times that Dublin City Council was “finally” appearing “to be arming itself” in the battle against dereliction. Ronan McGreevy reported on Monday that 20 derelict properties visited by The Irish Times a year previously remained decrepit. Its imaginative proposals to counter dereliction were allocated for action by Dublin City Council and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Two years later, we see outlines of a feeble response by Dublin City Council. Dublin City Council undertook emergency stabilisation works on the houses, involving extensive frameworks of steel girders, at front and rear in 2012.

Source: The Irish Times April 08, 2026 14:03 UTC