Dublin streets get €15m 5-year plan

FIFTEEN million euro is to be spent cleaning, improving security patrols and landscaping on more than 100 of Dublin’s busiest streets.

A five-year plan devised by the city’s business chiefs has been drawn up to beat the economic downturn by attracting shoppers, tourists and traders to the capital.

Borrowing the idea from American cities including New York and Philadelphia, the country’s first Business Improvement District (BID) aims to make the city a place people flock to.