The construction of more than 1,000 apartments on the site of the former O’Devaney Gardens flat complex in Dublin has been dogged by delays for 19 years since Dublin City Council first started talking about moving tenants out of the then-1950s social housing blocks. Building of this important project is finally underway but at a cost. In the mid-2000s, hopes rose that the sprawling site near Dublin’s Phoenix Park would be redeveloped by a private developer, only for this deal to fall apart with the financial crash. Nothing much happened as more years rolled by, other than the council gradually…

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