"My responsibility is to the audience. They've got to come in and have a good evening of theatre. That's what we promised them when they put down their money.
Hines gets approval for €135m Liffey Valley extension
Updated / Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021
21:15
The proposed extension is to be anchored by two large retail units to either side of the public plaza
Property group, Hines has secured planning permission for a €135 million major extension to the Liffey Valley Centre in Dublin.
South Dublin County Council has granted permission for the shopping centre extension in spite of trenchant opposition to the plan from the operator of a rival shopping centre, The Square in Tallaght.
According to Hines, the new plan is to provide a contemporary mixed leisure, entertainment and retail extension to Liffey Valley that is to be centred around a new landmark feature, a large public plaza and creating a new East-West street at the centre.
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The character of Mary Beth Lacey is as firmly fixed in the collective televisual consciousness of the Irish as it is in Americans – perhaps even more so.
Yet it’s hard to imagine Tyne Daly, the person behind the persona, being swamped by autograph seekers in a Stateside mall; it wasa different story at Dublin’s Liffey Valley Centre in early May, as a leisurely shop turned into a love fest. By all accounts, Ms. Daly handled all and sundry with aplomb and autographs, and having met her recently, ahead of the opening of the Irish premiere of Bertolt Brecht’s