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Around 55 men have re-pitched their tents at the Grand Canal in Dublin, just hours after another state-agency operation to clear the banks of homeless asylum-seekers.

Around 55 men have re-pitched their tents at the Grand Canal in Dublin just hours after another state-agency operation to clear the banks of homeless asylum-seekers.

Around 55 men have re-pitched their tents at the Grand Canal in Dublin just hours after another state-agency operation to clear the banks of homeless asylum-seekers.

In a ten-page submission on the new Blessington Local Area Plan, Cathaoirleach of the Baltinglass Municipal District, Councillor Edward Timmins, has highlighted how a Luas extension, multi-use sports complex and the Blessington Greenway would be transformative for the area.

Planning experts say changing at this stage would risk (further) major delays to MetroLink and (even) higher costs.

A professor in transportation told The Journal that moving the terminus would mean a redesign of the system that could delay it into the 2040s.

New owners will have options as the property features a commercial unit backing on to a rear lane

Jim O’Callaghan said it is “highly unusual” that the MetroLink “doesn’t terminate in a city centre location”.

Location of planned terminus would have ‘severely detrimental impact’ on surrounding residential area, Jim O’Callaghan tells hearing

Residents of 78 homes and the owners of a historic pub facing demolition to make way for MetroLink will have their say at a hearing into the project beginning today.