{"id":206219,"date":"2025-11-29T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206219\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:49:11","slug":"businessmans-freehold-claim-on-leafy-dartmouth-square-in-ranelagh-an-ongoing-headache-for-locals-amid-metrolink-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206219\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman\u2019s freehold claim on leafy Dartmouth Square in Ranelagh an ongoing headache for locals amid MetroLink concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Noel O\u2019Gara\u2019s assertion about the Victorian park is another problem to add to issues around the proposed rail stop and nearby office development\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dartmouth Square in Ranelagh. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1fd99b74-dbd4-47a4-adc9-f8017084fb69.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dartmouth Square in Ranelagh. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Long before the residents of Dartmouth Square West started becoming concerned about the MetroLink, they spent years concerned about the actions of an Athlone-based businessman who showed up one day, locked the gates of the Victorian park in front of the homes, and claimed ownership of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In what turned out to be a long-drawn-out saga that still lingers to this day, the actions of one Noel O\u2019Gara put the cat among the pigeons in the idyllic and historical square in Ranelagh, Dublin 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel O\u2019Gara\u2019s assertion about the Victorian park is another problem to add to issues around the proposed rail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2518,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,4852,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-206219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-conor-feehan","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-metrolink","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115632129090091225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}