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Laura Lyne

Damien Dempsey announced as headline act for Save Moore Street concert

Dublin legend Damien Dempsey has been announced as the headline act for the Save More Street concert taking place in Liberty Hall this Thursday.

He's set to join the likes of Paddy Casey, Daoirí Farrell, Louise and Michelle Mulcahy and Rónán Ó Snodaigh of Kíla in the lineup. The gig has been organised by the Moore Street Preservation Trust.

The benefit concert will support the ongoing campaign to save the historic area and to develop a 1916 cultural quarter. The latest development in the €500m plan has seen an objection lodged by Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald.

Read more: Mary Lou McDonald lodges appeal against third phase of €500m Dublin city centre project

Tickets cost €25 for the gig and can be bought online, from Liberty Hall or on the night on Thursday. Doors open for the show at 7pm and the concert is at 8pm.

The latest phase of the scheme would the demolition of buildings and structures on site at Moore Street and Moore Lane to accommodate the construction of a new public plaza along with a mixed-use scheme in a six-storey building.

In her objection against the third phase, Deputy McDonald claimed that the proposed development “will erase for all time Moore Street’s unique plot grains and courtyards which give this site its historic core differentiating it from other competing locations nationally and internationally".

Other objectors to the plan included The 1916 Relatives Moore Street Initiative, Relatives of Signatories of the Proclamation, Moore Street Preservation and the Moore Street Traders along with a number of individual third-party appeals.

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