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# The Liberties

This year
2023
# Dublin heritage
Work to begin on preserving Iveagh Markets roof after years-long wait
The once-lively indoor marketplace in Dublin 8 has been left vacant.
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Feb 2nd 2023, 4:34 PM
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# The Liberties
Full restoration of Dublin's Iveagh Market expected to cost €23 million
The Guinness family, now in a legal dispute with businessman Martin Keane, wants to restore the market to its former glory.
The Guinness family is keen to quickly resolve the current legal dispute before further deterioration, Michelle Hennessy reports.
Restoring the roof of the historical structure is estimated to cost €6 million.
Call for swift action to preserve Iveagh Market as new images show 'shocking' deterioration
'This is a bit of hope for locals': Guinness family intervention at Iveagh Markets could end long-running saga over its future
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Aug 24th 2021, 12:05 AM
# taking liberties
Green light for 'boutique hotel' style student accommodation in Dublin’s Liberties in spite of locals' concerns
Residents say he increase of transient type accommodation will have a negative impact on the current community in the Liberties.
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Dec 19th 2019, 10:00 PM
# dead set against
James Joyce House was 'not designed for intensive daily use' as a 56-bed hostel
It was built “nearly 250 years ago and was not designed or constructed for intensive daily use,” the Irish Georgian Society said.
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Nov 26th 2019, 6:00 AM
# RIP
'He lifted the gloom of the nation': Dublin says goodbye to Brendan Grace
The Liberties was shut down for the day as fans and friends gathered for the funeral of Brendan Grace.
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Jul 15th 2019, 5:45 PM
# Student Accommodation
'A kick in the teeth for the community': Another 235 student beds approved for The Liberties
The new beds will be operated by Global Student Accommodation.
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Apr 19th 2019, 6:05 AM
# Dublin
Work finally begins to refurbish The Liberties' Peace Park
There’s been disagreement over whether a First World War memorial should be placed in the ‘peace’ park.
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Feb 16th 2019, 6:00 PM
# The Liberties
Dublin 8 locals protest Harry Crosbie's Vicar Street Hotel development
Dublin City Council gave the green light to the 185-bedroom hotel last month.
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Feb 16th 2019, 4:45 PM
# The Liberties
Locals hold out hope that Weaver Garden allotments will be saved over rapid-build Liberties apartments
“We’re planting something that’s going to grow in Spring, so we’re hoping we get to stay,” a spokesperson told TheJournal.ie.
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Jan 9th 2019, 6:20 AM
# Dublin 8
'We need more of this, not less': Liberties locals up in arms over plans to 'bulldoze' allotments and community garden
Dublin City Council says it is ‘difficult’ to find an alternative spot for the allotment holders.
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Nov 24th 2018, 6:00 AM
Voices
Growing up in The Liberties: 'We thought we were posh because we had our own hall door'
There have been some great characters in The Liberties over the years, writes Josie Sheehan.
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Jul 21st 2018, 7:30 PM
# Double Take
Double Take: The Bride St plaques featuring stories of life in Dublin 8
Quotes, stories and jokes from inner-city residents, all cast in bronze.
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Jun 13th 2018, 4:50 PM
# Bomb Squad
A building site was evacuated after an artillery shell was found in Dublin's Liberties today
It’s the second time in a week that the bomb squad has been called to an incident in Dublin.
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Apr 5th 2018, 3:47 PM
# mill street
Students living in €249-a-week accommodation offered partial refunds due to months of construction work
A number of students have complained about loud construction work ongoing since October.
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Mar 31st 2018, 12:05 AM
# The Liberties
Fears The Liberties will become 'another Temple Bar' as latest student accommodation gets planning approval
Concerns have been raised at the pace of change in one of Dublin’s oldest areas.
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Mar 20th 2018, 12:05 AM
# The Liberties
Dublin City's Weaver Park nominated for a European urban park prize
The park, located in the heart of the Liberties, was opened in September last year.
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Feb 11th 2018, 6:30 AM
# The Liberties
A last-ditch attempt to save an old pub has stalled a €200m project to overhaul Dublin's Liberties
An Taisce thinks redevelopment of Newmarket Square will “erase” the area’s qualities.
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Dec 28th 2017, 6:10 AM
# Dublin
Market stalls in Dublin's Liberties raided this morning in counterfeit goods operation
Gardai confirmed a number of searches took place this morning.
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Dec 19th 2017, 2:12 PM
# st james's gate quarter
Diageo announces plans for a new urban quarter at St James's Gate
The quarter will be a mixed use area with commercial, office and residential space and will be fully integrated into the wider Liberties area.
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Oct 4th 2017, 11:51 AM
# weaver park
'It's been jammers': Dublin just got its first new public park in 8 years
“There’s a relationship between green space and mental health of those living around it,” one campaigner said.
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Oct 3rd 2017, 6:40 AM
# newmarket square
This is what the major regeneration of Dublin's Liberties will look like
The regeneration would sustain 1,700 permanent jobs, its planners said.
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Jul 3rd 2017, 1:38 PM
# Policy
'We've seen mistakes in Dublin in the past. We don't want the Liberties to become soulless'
We look at how business is faring in the Dublin neighbourhood as it undergoes regeneration.
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Mar 3rd 2017, 10:11 AM
Voices
How a Norwegian street musician crashed her van in The Liberties, bought a horse, and was embraced by the community
The Musical Slave recently released a music video which focuses on the two and a half years she spent in The Liberties in Dublin and the people she met there.
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Feb 10th 2017, 12:01 AM
# a new hope
A wonderful mural in tribute to Carrie Fisher has just popped up in Dublin
It’s our girl Leia.
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Jan 20th 2017, 10:35 AM
# The Liberties
Court challenge brought against use of Dublin community centre as homeless hostel
Dublin City Council says it is reacting to a “humanitarian crisis”.
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Jan 18th 2017, 6:20 PM
# what's the story?
"The priests would have roast beef for dinner, and a fella would collect the drippings and sell it in his shop" - The songs and stories of Dublin's Liberties
A new programme has encouraged residents of the historical district to write about their area.
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Jul 19th 2016, 8:30 PM
# cookie shop
The Liberties is getting a brand new cafe dedicated entirely to cookies
Dublin Cookie Co is coming to town.
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Feb 23rd 2016, 3:00 PM
# what a liberty
Dublin 8 just got a new coffee shop but LOOK at the sausage rolls and pastries
Get in our bellies!
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Jan 7th 2016, 11:12 AM
# Holy Spirits
€5m distillery planned for Dublin church
Multinational animal feed player to build distillery on site of St James’s church where Daniel O’Connell laid foundation stone.
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Mar 24th 2014, 6:11 PM
# tech firms
In 2016 there'll be a new place for 500 students to live: Dublin's Digital Hub
Part of the historic Marshalsea debtors’ prison will also be refurbished to create more office space for tech firms.
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Mar 24th 2014, 9:01 AM
# The Liberties
'Secret Millionaire' community centre in Dublin's inner city closes down
The St Nicholas of Myra centre in The Liberties in Dublin’s inner city had become a hub for people in the area – but now it faces the same fate as so many community centres.
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Dec 15th 2013, 7:45 AM
# Liberties
GALLERY: Striking photos of inner-city Dublin and its residents
Photographer Karl Martini captured kids, shopkeepers and passers-by in The Liberties.
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Feb 8th 2013, 7:30 PM
# City of Literature
Dublin writers' exhibition opens in the Liberties
W.B. Yeats was poor at spelling and Samuel Beckett was born on a Friday 13th…just some of the facts you will learn at the newly-opened Dublin Writers’ exhibition.
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Aug 23rd 2011, 1:40 PM