Skyscraper plans built on greed, says parish priest

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / February 25 2000: Skyscraper plans built on greed, says parish priest

Fr John Wall, PP Laurence O'Toole Church told the National Conference Centre inquiry that householders faced life .at the bottom of the Grand Canyon or the Cliffs of Moher with windows'. It was basic greed that lead to such developments, he told the Bord Pleanala inquiry. Irish Georgian Society conservation officer Mary Bryan said the profile of the buildings would not add anything to the site other than ``a deja vu of some uninteresting downtown US city not in any way suitable for Dublin city''.

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