RDS gets green light for office block despite outcry

AN BORD Pleanála has granted planning permission to the Royal Dublin Society for a 100 million office complex, despite local objections.

The enclosed order of Poor Clare nuns says the office blocks overlook the order’s property and will impact on their “privacy and confidentiality”.

An Taisce, one of the main objectors, says the multi-storey development “prejudices the maintenance of the Horse Show in its present form, by reducing the available open space”.