Street traders and business owners on Dublin’s Moore Street have questioned the timing of plans to revitalise the area.
The council is looking for a company to run a market that would complement the existing stalls.
Stall owners here on Moore Street have long called for help to revitalise the long-running market, that they say has been left to deteriorate;
"They use it as a toilet, let's put it that way."
"It's just a derelict place, that's it, loads of issues."
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A Building Site
The city council’s issued a tender for a company to run a market from Thursday to Sundays adding more stalls to the existing 17 on the street.
But Noel Dunne, from the Centra on the corner of Moore Street, says the area will effectively be a building site– with a major retail and office project planned for the area surrounding the market;
"I personally wouldn't take a stall down there knowing full well that, for the foreseeable, there's going to be a crane and dust and dirt and filth, the whole lot that goes with it."
Too Little Too Late
Stephen Troy from the local butchers says its too little too late, when a decision on the development is due shortly;
"I think this might be the council's way to sugar coat the devastation and impact it'll have on businesses and traders."
According to the tender, the new stalls would be in place by next February with the contract initially lasting a year.
