A south Dublin priest has called on his parishioners to object to a bus gate he says could spell the end of the almost 200-year-old church.
Fr Andrew O'Sullivan of St Mary Immaculate Refuge for Sinners in Rathmines urged parishioners to lodge objections to a section of the National transport Authority's Templeogue/Rathfarnham to City Centre Bus Corridor.
A bus gate will ban private cars from driving from Rathmines Village to the church at St Mary's College seven days a week between 6am and 8pm. Restrictions on Mountpleasant Avenue and Richmond Hill means motorists will have to go through Ranelagh via Castlewood Avenue and back to Rathmines via the Grand Canal.
