The Irish Times

Dublin City Council is planning to create a new "cathedral quarter" in the heart of the medieval city, centred on Christ Church and St Patrick's and surviving remnants of the old city walls. The plan envisages creating new routes through the area, following the line of the walls where possible, as well as new public spaces and a city museum on St John's Lane, partially obscuring the north front of Christ Church Cathedral. Other proposals in the plan, which was drawn up by McCullough Mulvin Architects, include eliminating St Audoen's Park on the corner of High Street and Bridge Street to reinstate a sense of enclosure by building up the street frontages. The sunken Peace Garden at the corner of Christchurch Place and Nicholas Street - installed in 1991 - is also being targeted for similar treatment, though an element of green space would be retained behind a new building on the frontage.