Grangegorman residents call for €1.5bn DIT campus plan to go ahead

“Any decision not to proceed with Dublin Institute of Technology’s €1bn-plus move to Grangegorman in north inner-city Dublin risks condemning the area to ‘further neglect’ and should be resisted, local residents have warned. In a recent letter to Taois­each Brian Cowen, they note that the Bord Snip Nua report advocated the withdrawal of all current funding to the Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) – about €1.5m – and the amalgamation of Tallaght IT and Blanchardstown IT with DIT …” (more)

[John Downes, Sunday Tribune, 2 August]

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