Third time lucky? The Hendrons building, where planning notices have again appeared at the top of Dominick Street in Dublin’s north city centre, has a long history of rejected redevelopment applications. In 2008, its owner Eugene Carlyle applied to raze the former industrial showrooms and associated warehouses on the 0.8-acre site to erect a complex anchored by a 14-storey angular glass tower. The proposal included 48 apartments, an aparthotel with 32 rooms, artists’ studios, a restaurant and a shop. The avalanche of objections included those of three of the Northside’s most prominent TDs at the time: Bertie Ahern, who had been…

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