Some homeowners on the country’s most exclusive road are trying to block plans by one of their neighbours to carry out a house makeover that includes an underground cinema.

CROKE PARK stadium director Peter McKenna has described planned protests by local residents for last night and today as “unhelpful” but has reiterated that the new pitch will be ready for the weekend’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals.

A MAYO estate with “third- world” conditions is to get a €13 million makeover as part of plans to rejuvenate rundown residential areas around the country.

PARENTS fear their children could be killed from poison that is being deliberately laid on a green area in a busy housing estate.