State Papers – Day One: Áras for Taoiseach project abandoned
The project — with a stated cost of £3.9 million — was abandoned by the government on January 2, 1980, just three months after the winning design had been announced.
Taoiseach Charles Haughey was keen to get the message out that the project, begun by his predecessor Jack Lynch, was being scrapped because of the economic situation and enquiries were made of RTÉ after the official announcement did not make the main teatime news on TV.
