First phase of €200m facelift of Fatima Mansions flats marks start of a new era

A NEW era began yesterday for one of Dublin’s most deprived inner-city areas when the first phase of a €200 million facelift of the Fatima Mansions flats complex was unveiled.

The 150 social housing units, 70 affordable homes and 400 private apartments which also include a creche, retail units and a leisure centre will be completed by 2008.

The development replaces the old eight-storey flats in the 50-year-old complex, which became a monument to deprivation and drug abuse.