Sir, – As a former member of the staff of the City of Dublin Skin & Cancer Hospital on Hume Street, Dublin, and as the author of the history of the hospital, A Century of Serviceit saddens me to see the destruction of the six formerly well-maintained Georgian houses that comprised the hospital.
Until recently the property was the responsibility of Nama, which neglected to maintain the buildings.
How is it that Dublin City Council can enter into protracted legal proceedings to prevent the installation of a dumb-waiter in a listed building on Merrion Square yet apparently turn a blind eye to the wholesale destruction of a block of listed buildings on Hume Street? – Yours, etc,
EOIN O’BRIEN,
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Clifton Terrace,
Monkstown, Co Dublin.