{"id":275829,"date":"2026-01-09T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:27:08","slug":"dublin-city-council-to-spend-e3-8-million-to-rejuvenate-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275829\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin City Council to spend \u20ac3.8 million to rejuvenate city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin City Council is to spend \u20ac3.8 million on a dedicated unit for the \u201crejuvenation\u201d<\/strong> of the city centre in response to riots over two years ago that “deeply affected the city”.<\/p>\n

As the Irish Examiner<\/a> reports, the local authority has tendered a four-year contract<\/strong> for a professional services firm tasked with establishing a dedicated project management unit and special purpose vehicle.<\/p>\n

Dublin\u2019s north inner city<\/strong> has been plagued by petty crime and allegedly unsafe streets for several years.<\/p>\n

These issues came to a head after thousands rioted on O\u2019Connell St in the wake of the stabbing of a five-year-old schoolgirl in the area on November 23rd, 2023.<\/p>\n

The city council’s tender documents<\/a> for the contract note that the riots, which resulted in property damage costing in the region of \u20ac20m, had \u201cdeeply affected the city\u201d.<\/p>\n

It noted that in the aftermath, a city co-ordination office had been set up within the local authority with the \u201cunified goal\u201d of making Dublin a \u201cmore vibrant, safe, and appealing city\u201d.<\/p>\n

In order to achieve that aim, a group of stakeholders \u2014 including garda\u00ed, the National Transport Authority, F\u00e1ilte Ireland, and the HSE \u2014 were brought together to form an action group to identify the \u201ckey issues\u201d which had \u201cnegatively impacted Dublin\u2019s city centre\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Ireland<\/p>\n

Four arrested after police uncover cannabis factory in Derry<\/p>\n

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The group identified three action areas: Safety, movement and transport, and the “public realm”.<\/p>\n

The local authority stated that it had conducted research on best practices for achieving similar urban rehabilitation outcomes, both domestically and abroad, including Limerick Twenty Thirty and the Greater London Authority.<\/p>\n

The three overriding goals of the project are to increase the number of people living in Dublin\u2019s city centre, to have streets that \u201clook cleaner and feel safer\u201d, and to create a \u201chealthy, vibrant, always-on city that respects its heritage\u201d, the authority said.<\/p>\n

To that end, 10 specific targets have been set, which will be the broad responsibility of the new dedicated unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin City Council is to spend \u20ac3.8 million on a dedicated unit for the \u201crejuvenation\u201d of the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-275829","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-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115864905070300082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275829","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=275829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}