An application to use at least part of a building on Mill Road in north county Dublin to provide “refugee accommodation” has been lodged with Fingal County Council. It was submitted on March 10 with a commencement date of March 18, Tuesday just gone.
What is striking about the proposal is that it involves the change over of use from a school. For indeed, while the buildings at Mill Road, not far from the James Connolly Memorial Hospital, are no longer in current use to provide trivia such as education, this has generally what it has been at other than at one time when it was the headquarters of the Irish Swiss Institute of Horology which taught people how to make watches.
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