'People power has prevailed' - Hotel refused on famed Cobblestone pub site

Campaigners had urged the public to submit formal objections to the council over the plans, and hundreds of people held a protest in Dublin city centre last month. Photo: Damien Storan/PA

Dublin City Council has refused planning permission for proposals to build a hotel on the site of one of the city’s most famous pubs.

Hundreds of objections were lodged over the plans for the Cobblestone pub in Smithfield.