Christchurch Place

And, you know, I always was struck by the shocking fact that The population of the inner city had declined so much that from a high point of about a quarter of a million in the mid-1920s, in 1926, to what turned out to be the lowest point, which is 84,000, just 84,000 in 1991.

And as a result of the campaign that got underway following the publication of The Destruction of Dublin and the Dublin Crisis Conference, which Deirdre Kelly and Victor Griffin and David Norris and Mick Rafferty and others and myself were involved in organising in the synod hall in Christchurch Place, in February 1986, they introduced a scheme of urban renewal tax incentives.

And that was really very important.

I mean, yes, it was focused largely on commercial development, but, you know, it also included incentives for people to live in the city.