Several buildings in central Dublin which were used by rebel leaders during the 1916 uprising are to be saved from the wreckers' ball, it has been announced.

THE director of the National Museum has been asked by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht to assess an application by developer, Joe O’Reilly, to complete building works on the historical section of Dublin’s Moore Street.

A PIPER led a symbolic march by over 100 people, including relatives of the 1916 Rising leaders and politicians, through Dublin city centre yesterday to commemorate those that died during the Rebellion.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to relocate the Abbey Theatre to the GPO on O’Connell Street have been slammed as “ludicrous and crazy”.

Minister for the Environment Dick Roche has signed a preservation order for the building where the leaders of the 1916 Rising were holed up before deciding to surrender.

Conservationists have won the battle to save 16 Moore Street.

Dublin City Council is to write to the British government calling for the return of a surrender letter rebel leader Padraig Pearse handed to an English general after the Easter Rising, it emerged tonight.

THE National Graves Association welcomes the findings of the Shaffrey architectural and historical report regarding 16 Moore Street in Dublin where the leaders of the 1916 rebellion made their last stand.

Dublin City Council has voted unanimously to protect the house used as the final headquarters of the leaders of the 1916 Rising.

Dublin City Council will decide next week whether to save the last refuge of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders.

DUBLIN City Council could do more to preserve the building at 16 Moore Street, where Irish revolutionaries and nation-builders surrendered after the Easter Rising in 1916.

Minister for the Environment Dick Roche entered the debate on Dublin’s No 16 Moore Street this afternoon.

The group campaigning to save and redevelop 16 Moore Street in Dublin is seeking an urgent meeting with city officials to discuss the poor state of the building.

The last refuge of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising should be converted into an interpretative centre before it becomes a ruin, it was claimed tonight.

THE Government should be ashamed of its lack of commitment to save a building known as Ireland’s Alamo, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said yesterday.

An Taisce today joined a fight to protect the building known as “Ireland’s Alamo”.

Historians and environmentalists have appealed to Dublin City Council to scrap its plans to demolish the house where the leaders of the 1916 Rising decided to surrender.