Dublin City Council has given the go-ahead for a €40m plan to convert Loreto Hall, a former women’s hostel on St Stephen’s Green, into a luxury hotel.

The Dublin offices of international legal firm Maples and Calder have put on hold plans by Irish Life to construct a €20m six-storey office block on a landmark St Stephen’s Green site.

Jeanette Lowe’s latest exhibition of photographs is called Waiting. Her collection of 70 to 80 photographs capture a transitory moment in which the Charlemont St Flats close to St Stephen’s Green in Dublin are being demolished — two blocks have been knocked; four remain standing with a few dozen families still living within.