A €400,000 budget to replace the aviation light at the top of the Spire on O’Connell Street in Dublin city centre has been described as “absolutely startling” by a Dublin city councillor.
Cllr Keith Connolly said he was amazed when he saw the figure, questioning how changing a light at the top of the Spire could cost the “same as the price of a house in Dublin”.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” the Fianna Fáil councillor for Ballymun-Finglas said.
An aviation light is a high-intensity light used to alert aircraft to the presence of tall structures when flying at night.
Murder inquiry under way as man shot dead in Ballymun, north Dublin Man in his 40s killed in gun attack in Belclare housing estate
Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 21:45 Updated: Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 23:35
Gardaí have begun a murder investigation after a Dublin man was shot dead in a housing estate in Ballymun on the north side of the city.
The victim, who was in his 40s, was fatally wounded in a gun attack which bore all the hallmarks of a gangland incident.
Gardaí were called to the scene on Belclare Drive, Ballymun, at about 9pm amid reports a man had been shot and critically wounded.
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