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PHOTOS: O'Devaney Gardens before its last flats are demolished

When finished, the development will house around 480 new homes.
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DURING THE WEEK, Dublin City Council passed a motion that will see the final flats at O’Devaney Gardens in Dublin torn down.

The site will be redeveloped into fully State-owned accommodation, with the final demolition taking place in the coming weeks.

Two of the four remaining blocks of flats, which date from the 1950s and are located close to the Phoenix Park, are still occupied.

The demolition of the complex began eight years ago.

When finished, the development will house around 480 new homes. It will serve as a pilot scheme for placing social housing and private rentals on the same site.

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Half of the units developed on the site will be used as social housing, while the other half will be rented to those with a demonstrated housing need.

Tenants will then be charged a rent tied to their income – with higher earners paying a higher rent.

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    Des Smyth
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    Oct 22nd 2011, 4:00 PM

    Here’s a quick fix for Greece, get your people to pay some f’n taxes….

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    Oct 22nd 2011, 3:16 PM

    Makes for bleak reading especially if you are Greek.

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    Oct 22nd 2011, 4:30 PM

    Greeces problems are a sideshow in this debacle and Greece has has become the whipping boy for economic problems that span all of Europe.
    If Greece alone was the problem the EU/ECB could quite easily manage.
    The problem is excessive sovereign debt across Europe and the insolvency of the European banking system.
    https://goldsilver.com/news/the-truth-behind-europe-s-1-7-trillion-triangle-of-terror/

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    Oct 23rd 2011, 11:10 AM

    This is all wrong, Ireland and Greece should both have defaulted at the beginning. What happened in Ireland is now happening on a larger scale in the EU, those guys have as much a clue what they’re doing as Bertie and co did.
    Iceland did it right.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/global-exchange/icelands-no-bailout-stance-hasnt-chilled-investors/article2060163/

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    Oct 22nd 2011, 8:41 PM

    Whats happening about the previous gov who cooked the books

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    Oct 22nd 2011, 10:59 PM

    Civil war in Greece before 2020.

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    Oct 23rd 2011, 12:56 AM

    Will it be as bloody as the second Irish one do you think?.

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    Oct 22nd 2011, 7:51 PM

    Greece is a basket case

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