The cancelled live animal Christmas crib will be resurrected a few hundred metres up the road from its former home at the Mansion House.
The decades-old tradition will now be housed in St Stephen's Green's Summer House from December 8. The attraction will include a donkey, two sheep, and a goat.
Green Party Councillor and Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy was the subject of a major controversy when she announced the live-animal element of the crib would not go ahead at this year's nativity scene outside the Mansion House. The Office of Public Works has now taken it upon themselves to bring the Christmas attraction to its new location.