Reply To: Thank god for Frank McDonald

Went there to take a look last week on a visit to Dublin: found the whole area Dettox-sterile, apart from the pleasingly derelict Spencer Dock bit beyond the canal, where sterilisation has been delayed.

Most striking is the wealth gradient between the back of all those financial-services boxes and the streets of social housing behind. It’s like the City of London meeting the refugee area of Spitalfields: an incredible social chasm.