Dublin is getting a new €40m hotel… however, there are ‘security fears’

An Bord Pleanála has given the go-ahead for a new €40m hotel on St Stephen’s Green.

However, there are "security fears" being raised by the adjoining offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The hotel was originally proposed in April, where it was said Loreto Hall (a former women’s hostel), Number 77 St Stephen’s Green was going to turn into a luxury hotel. When the plans were made, the Department filed a motion to block it, however Brown Table Solutions has now been granted final approval to convert the building into an 87-bedroom hotel. It believes that the new hotel will be a “gross over-development” of the historic site. “The security and privacy of the Iveagh House premises is of paramount importance. "The proposal to construct a bank of hotel rooms with windows facing directly into the Iveagh House offices and ballroom — its main meeting room — with inadequate separation distances, is of great concern,” it said in its appeal.