DublinTown warmly welcomes the official announcement today (9th February) that The LEGO Store is coming to the Grafton Street area.  This vote of confidence will add to Dublin city centre’s family appeal and will significantly augment the district’s diverse and engaging offer.  The city was challenged during the pandemic but now as we emerge into […]

Dublin’s main business group – DublinTown – published footfall figures today (Monday 24th January) highlighting that footfall in Dublin city centre increased by 22% on Saturday 22nd January, the first day all Covid restrictions were lifted. The week-on-week increase is a positive sign for the struggling hospitality and retail businesses in Dublin who have been […]

The plan fails to sufficiently recognise the infrastructural bottlenecks in Dublin city and the pre-eminent position of Dublin as the country’s only city of scale. At a time of rapid change in the international environment, we must increasingly look to ‘quality of life’ issues to sustain and develop inward investment. Dublin has traditionally offered that […]

DublinTown, like our members, were appalled by the behaviour of a minority of people who visited the city yesterday evening.  Rowdy behaviour and attacks on the Gardai are entirely unacceptable. It appears that last night we had a group of people who came to the city with the intention of mis-behaving.  There can be no tolerance of […]

DublinTown welcomes the proposals for the O’Connell Street District announced by Hammerson today. We believe that the plans will future proof the district, providing additional reasons to visit the city’s northern commercial core. We further believe that the proposals will act as a catalyst for additional investment within the district that is much needed. Of […]

DublinTown, the business group representing 2,500 businesses in Dublin City Centre, has expressed its concern with the partial pedestrian plans announced by Dublin City Council today.  The limited and partial plans do not reflect the wishes of the majority of the business community or the wider public.  The position regarding South William Street is a […]

Dublin City Centre, like many larger urban centres has suffered disproportionate economic impacts. Footfall is currently less than 30% of 2019 levels. Dublin city’s vulnerability requires extremely urgent responses. In particular, DublinTown is concerned with the high levels of vacancy, (for example ground floor vacancy on Henry St. will be in excess of 30% on […]

and the Appointment of a Director of City Recovery to Address Fallout Resulting From Covid-19 Crisis Dublin city, like many other leading cities internationally, has been hard hit by the pandemic. Many city based businesses are financially fragile and vulnerable and a key task is to ensure that they survive into the post pandemic period, […]