{"id":381949,"date":"2026-03-12T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/381949\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:50:09","slug":"john-mccolgan-and-moya-doherty-get-green-light-to-restore-merrion-street-property-as-a-residence-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/381949\/","title":{"rendered":"John McColgan and Moya Doherty get green light to restore Merrion Street property as a residence \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin City Council<\/a> has granted planning permission for plans to revamp a four-storey property owned by the co-founders of Riverdance, John McColgan and Moya Doherty<\/a> in the heart of Georgian Dublin.<\/p>\n

In the application lodged with Dublin City Council for the McColgan\/Doherty property at 30 Merrion Street<\/a> Upper, Dublin 2 a planning design report drawn up by Paul Keogh Architects stated that the project brief \u201cis to restore and sensitively adapt the protected structure from its existing office use to a single-family residence, ensuring its long-term viability as a comfortable and sustainable home\u201d.<\/p>\n

The council has granted permission for the change of use from commercial to reinstate residential use after concluding that the scheme \u201cwill provide for a high quality accommodation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Attaching nine conditions, the council planner\u2019s report states that the dwelling \u201cwill have a roof terrace for their private open space and it is considered this will not negatively impact on neighbouring properties\u201d.<\/p>\n

The application was made in the name of David Orr, who is a director at the Riverdance firm Abhann Productions Ltd along with McColgan and Doherty.<\/p>\n

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The planning documentation includes a letter of consent signed by McColgan and Doherty giving their consent for Orr to lodge the application.<\/p>\n

On behalf of owners of 85 Merrion Square, Teresa and Brian O\u2019Loughlin, Hughes Planning and Development Consultants, which has its offices at the same address, told the council that owners of 85 Merrion Square were not opposed to the principle of the proposed development.<\/p>\n

However, Kevin Hughes stated that following a review of the application material, it appeared that a section of the O\u2019Loughlins\u2019 lands had been included within the application\u2019s red line boundary and also within the blue line ownership boundary, and that consent for these inclusions had not been sought from the O\u2019Loughlins by the applicant.<\/p>\n

McColgan and Doherty also own the three Georgian terrace buildings adjoining number 30 on Merrion Place Upper currently in commercial use. This block of properties has a boundary with the O\u2019Loughlin\u2019s property on Merrion Square. <\/p>\n

In response to the submission, the report by the council\u2019s planner found \u201cthat the proposal and works do not impact on the shared boundary in relation to this property\u201d.<\/p>\n

The council\u2019s report found that any boundary issues \u201care civil issues and planning permissions do not give the right to override this. It is therefore considered not appropriate to seek further information on this issue\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin City Council has granted planning permission for plans to revamp a four-storey property owned by the co-founders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,784,18,19,17,47654,6072,175288,14186],"class_list":["post-381949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dublin-city-council","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-merrion-street","tag-merrion-square","tag-moya-doherty","tag-riverdance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116218181967721894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381949","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=381949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}