Developer offered Castleknock resident €100,000 to drop case against apartments plan
One of the State’s most prolific apartment builders offered a Castleknock resident €100,000 to drop judicial review proceedings against a 210-bed co-living scheme on the site of a former Brady’s pub.
Richard Barrett’s Bartra made the cash offer in a letter to Barry O’Lone, whose family home is opposite the pub on the Old Navan Road, seeking the withdrawal of his challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s permission for the shared apartment scheme.
If Mr O’Lone did not agree to accept the offer within four weeks Bartra would instead lodge an application for social housing on the site, the letter said.
European Elections
- ‘You should think more about Crumlin and not the Kremlin’: Five takeaways from RTÉ's European election Dublin debate: There wasn’t too much to compare it to. The Midlands-North-West debate was chaotic because of some of the personalities involved. The Ireland South debate was grand, but it did not produce fireworks. This one did.
News in Ireland
- Woman (23) dies after dog attack at house in Co Limerick: A 23-year-old woman has died after being attacked by a dog in Co Limerick. The victim was attacked by the dog at a house in Ballyneety at 11.40pm on Tuesday night.
- McDonald shifts on €300,000 target for average Dublin house prices: The Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has said her party would have a scheme to sell affordable homes in Dublin for €300,000, appearing to move away from a previous position where she had indicated that average house prices in Dublin should fall to the same figure.
- Dublin 10 has ‘elevated’ levels of violence against women, report finds: Up to 70 per cent of criminal-damage and public-order incidents in parts of southwest Dublin are related to domestic violence, with Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard “disproportionately affected” by “elevated” levels of violence against women, a report published on Wednesday warns.
- Landlady to pay hundreds to tenants over ‘aggressive’ eviction that saw possessions thrown on street at 2am during winter: A landlady has been ordered to pay more than €10,000 to two tenants, a male student and a female worker, over their unlawful sudden and “aggressive” eviction from a house in Cork.
- Weather Forecast: Rather cool today with variable cloud, showers and sunny spells. The best of the sunshine will occur this morning. Showers will be most frequent across the north and west, some heavy with a slight chance of hail in the north. Highs of just 11 to 15 degrees, in light to moderate west to northwest winds, fresh to strong at times along northern and northwestern coasts. Tonight, showers will become confined to the west and north with long dry and clear spells developing elsewhere. It’ll be a cool night given the time of year, with lowest temperatures of 4 to 8 degrees.
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Your Wellness
- ‘He’d love to build a house in the countryside, but I wouldn’t live there if someone paid me’: “We both want different Eircodes. He would love to build a house out in the country, however, I am a townie and will never live out in the country even if someone paid me. I can understand in his hometown we would have more people to see. My argument is my mental health comes first, as I have previously felt lost and lonely in this relationship and don’t want to go there again.”
Leaving Cert
- Leaving Cert 2024: Exam survival guide for students (and parents): Take a deep breath: this morning will see the first of this year’s written papers in the Leaving Certificate when English paper one lands at 9.30am.
Work Q&A
- ‘I was appointed to a new role and sent back to my old one within days’: “I was asked to join a different area (not immediately related to my skill set) for what I was told was a permanent move which then became a 12-month project. Then unexpectedly and with only one day’s notice, I was informed that the project was being ‘deprioritised’ and I would be returning to my old role the following week.”
Business
- Intel secures $11bn for 49% of Leixlip plant: Intel has sold a 49 per cent stake in its Fab 34 facility at Leixlip, Co Kildare, where it manufactures wafers using the Intel 4 and Intel 3 process technologies, the company said on Tuesday. The move will allow Intel retain majority ownership and control while giving it access to funding to pursue an expansion of its manufacturing.
Opinion
- Kathy Sheridan: Chasing and jostling of Simon Harris blurred the line between protest and harassment
- Michael McDowell: What’s the biggest problem of the housing crisis? It’s the Department of Housing
Sports
- Darragh Ó Sé: Derry look loose, cranky and disorganised - the situation seems to be beyond fixing: The situation in Derry looks to be beyond fixing. I was watching them on Sunday and they are miles away from being contenders.
World
- Irish woman from Dublin eyes west London seat in Westminster: A woman from Greenhills near Walkinstown has been selected by the UK Labour Party to contest a safe seat in west London, putting her on course to be one of just a handful of Dubliners elected to the House of Commons over the past century.
- Sunak’s tax attack on Starmer leads to a soap opera in Coronation Street spin room: While Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer traded blows last night in the UK leaders’ debate at ITV’s studios on Salford Quays, most of the Westminster press pack headed in the direction of Coronation Street, writes Mark Paul from Salford.
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