State agrees not to demolish contentious buildings during adjournment
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The State has agreed not to demolish buildings at the heart of a High Court case to save properties said to be linked to the 1916 Easter Rising during a two-week adjournment, the Irish Examiner reports.
The 1916 Relatives Association launched legal proceedings seeking to have a number of buildings on Moore St and Moore Lane recognised as national monuments and protected from demolition.
The subject of the challenge is the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Mr Justice Seamus Noonan told the court there was “some urgency” to the case and fixed a further hearing for Tuesday 2 February 2016.
Conleth Bradley, counsel for the 1916 Relatives Association nominee Colm Moore, said the proceedings raised issues relating to determining what is a national monument.
An application for an injunction over planned works was dropped after the State gave an undertaking that no work would take place on the buildings until the next court date.
Seamus Woulfe, representing the minister, told the court that it would do so on a without prejudice basis to avoid the court having to deal with an injunction application.
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