‘People power at its shining best’

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese honoured Dublin community spirit at the weekend when she visited Fatima Mansions, a one-time social blackspot housing estate.

The south inner-city flats complex - once a byword in Dublin for social deprivation - is undergoing a massive transformation, the first phase of which is now completed.

Surveying the 110 new houses built under the five- year regeneration programme, Ms McAleese congratulated the local people on their determination and achievement.