Apartment owners in Longboat Quay last night agreed to accept a proposal to have the fire safety deficiencies in their Dublin dockland development addressed in order to avoid having to evacuate their homes by May.

Apartment owners in Longboat Quay have been told that if they don’t accept a deal on remedial fire safety works at a special meeting this evening, they will face a bill of up to €1m.

The wife of one of Ireland’s richest men, JP McManus, has been stopped in her tracks, for now, from further extending a family home on a ‘millionaires’ row’ in Dublin 4.

The Government rejected calls from the Public Accounts Committee to defer the dissolution of the Dublin Docklands Development Agency, until the Longboat Quay saga is concluded.

Poolbeg Peninsula and the lure of its vacant lands has rarely been out of the news headlines. 

Plans by investors — including AirAsia boss and Queens Park Rangers owner Tony Fernandes — to demolish and redevelop the Ormond Hotel in Dublin are being opposed by the Save Joycean Dublin Committee and local residents.

An investigation in Longboat Quay has uncovered a major deficiency in the roof which is estimated to cost €1.3m to repair.

The developer of Longboat Quay, Bernard McNamara, is in negotiations to complete the fire safety work required at the development using public money.

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It looks like Bernard McNamara, the man who built Longboat Quay, will get the job of sorting out its fire safety deficiencies without residents having to foot the bill, says Michael Clifford

While Bernard McNamara’s offer to do remedial work at the Longboat Quay complex at cost price would save residents financial pain, questions arise as to how the work could be done at this rate and if the recommended works would be completed in full, writes Michael Clifford

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Over 70% of the 96 Nama debtors who declared themselves bankrupt have been discharged from their bankruptcy.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that owns the exclusive five-star Conrad Hotel in Dublin last year increased by 11% to €1.025m.

The company that operates the five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin last year increased its operating profits by 13.5% to €37,117.

Residents of Longboat Quay, who face eviction from their homes on foot of a fire safety order, are to resume legal action against the Dublin Dockland Development Authority after the breakdown of talks yesterday.

The Longboat Quay Management Company has initiated legal proceedings over liability for funding €3.5m fire safety works at the Dublin apartment complex.

The Parknasilla Resort and Spa in stunning Sneem has something for everyone, especially families, writes Eoin English.

Poor old Bernard McNamara got a going-over during the week. McNamara is a developer and former Fianna Fáil councillor. A hardened cynic might say that’s enough to merit a perpetual going-over. But in fairness to the man, he was well got in places high and low before his own fall from grace into the clutches of bankruptcy.

WHEN Volkswagen confirmed its tremendous deceit and recklessness last week an iconic brand, and probably a country too, suffered huge credibility damage. 

Residents of Longboat Quay have rejected as “wholly unacceptable” an offer from the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) to contribute towards the cost of remedial works in their building.

Pressure is mounting on Dublin City Council to foot the €4m bill for fire safety remedial works in the 299-apartment complex Longboat Quay.

Owners in a controversial apartment block were told last night they have to come up with €4m in less than a week or Dublin Fire Brigade will move to have the building evacuated.

Documents furnished to a buyer of a unit at the questionable Longboat Quay complex did not reveal the extent of existing issues, writes Michael Clifford

An apartment in the controversial Longboat Quay development has been sold at auction to a bidder who was unaware of the extent of fire safety issues in the building.

More than 600 people will be forced to leave their homes in Dublin unless remedial fire safety work is carried out immediately.

The Longboat Quay development was found last year to have major deficiencies. We’ve

Finance minister Michael Noonan has revealed that 92 debtors in Nama — with combined debts of €11bn — have declared themselves bankrupt.

HOTELS in Cork, Kerry, Clare and Tipperary all feature in the latest burst of investor and end-user activity in the hospitality sector market.

Office activity in Cork’s suburbs, especially from FDI companies, has picked up sharply in recent months, according to agent Paul Hannon of Lisney.

Pre-tax losses at the group that operates the five-star K Club golf resort, in Co Kildare, totalled €3.725m in 2013, new figures show.

Public money is to be the main source of funding for the repair and upgrade work to be undertaken on the privately owned Longboat Quay apartment blocks, which were found to be a firetrap last year.

The evacuation of residents in more than 200 flats in a prestigious Dublin development was considered after the discovery of major construction flaws that rendered the buildings firetraps.

Owen Keegan needed this like a hole in the head last June. The Dublin City manager was already in the wars over Garth Brooks, then he heard he potentially had on his hands another Priory Hall.