A performance outside the disused Rupert Guinness Theatre as part of a campaign by Outlandish Theatre and Pallas Projects seeking more arts spaces. Photograph: Mark Stedman, as it was known, once hosted plays by upcoming dramatists such as John B Keane, Brian Friel, Hugh Leonard and Tom Murphy. Bus Éireann now plans to turn it into a staff training centre, sadly. But another largely forgotten Dublin theatre may be set for a new chapter.
. The Def Leppard frontman will be able to let his hair down in a treehouse he built at his Stepaside home in south Co Dublin aftergranted retention permission for the 7sq m structure. Earlier this year the council issued an enforcement order against Elliott and his wife, Kristine Elliott , for building the children’s treehouse without planning permission following a complaint from a neighbour.
The deputy neglected to mention his own role as an Airbnb host over the years, though. Collins previously declared a short-term rental through Airbnb of an “old farmhouse” near Schull in his annual Dáil register of interests, most recently in 2020.. But it’s not just the size of your favourite bar or biscuit that’s getting smaller in Ireland.
Now a family living on the square, flanked by IRFU rentals on either side, has objected to the size and scale of the three proposed extensions. Sharon Kiely and Gary O’Connor say they are one of the few remaining “family-owned and inhabited properties on this side of Havelock Square”. They argue that allowing proposed first floor extensions on the three houses, “coupled by already dark conditions posed by the size and scale of the Aviva Stadium”, would have an adverse impact on their home.