City centre street collapses into cellar
A Dublin Bus driver raised the alarm at lunchtime yesterday after becoming concerned about a pothole on Harcourt Street, which he felt was in danger of caving in. He refused to drive over the then 18-inch-wide hole until Luas workers laying tram tracks on the street placed steel sheeting across it.
Dublin City Council engineers were called in to examine the problem, and in the mid-afternoon it was decided to close off the road completely. Luas workers then pulled away the broken road surface and discovered a gaping hole underneath, which exposed a disused cellar attached to one of the adjacent 18th century buildings.
