Review into controversial Easter Rising site completed

A review has been completed into the future of a prized Nama-backed development site in Dublin which the families of the rebels of the 1916 Rising are fighting to have protected.

Dublin City Council ordered the review after details of a controversial deal emerged in which it used its authority to buy the strategic site on O’Connell Street.

Parallel to this deal, it had struck a secret resale contract with the a private development company, Chartered Lands.