O’Connell Street should be the jewel in the crown of our capital city. Instead, it has become a byword for anti-social activity, drug dealing and creeping dereliction.
The unflattering depiction of Dublin’s main thoroughfare on RTE’s Prime Time this week will have come as no surprise to north inner city residents, businesses or anyone who passes through O’Connell Street on a regular basis.
But the sad decline of this historic and once proud street is no accident – it is a direct result of inaction by successive governments and a toothless local authority.
