Government spent over €15k repairing Russian embassy gate

A large lorry crashed into the gates of the Russian Embassy in Dublin last March. Picture: Dublin Weather/PA Wire

Over €15,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on repairing the gate at the Russian embassy in Dublin.

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the Office of Public Works (OPW) requested funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs in July worth €15,038.75 for the total cost of the repair of the gate at the embassy on Orwell Rd.