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Your top stories on Tuesday: Proposal to relocate RTÉ to GPO; Sinn Féin row with Brian Stanley deepens

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Olga Conway during final rehearsals for The Critic by Charles Villers Stanford which will be one of the featured performances of the Wexford Opera Festival. The festival opens on Friday and runs until 2nd November. Photograph: Patricio Cassinoni
Olga Conway during final rehearsals for The Critic by Charles Villers Stanford which will be one of the featured performances of the Wexford Opera Festival. The festival opens on Friday and runs until 2nd November. Photograph: Patricio Cassinoni
Proposal to relocate RTÉ in GPO considered by Dublin taskforce

Relocating State broadcaster RTÉ in the GPO on Dublin’s O’Connell Street was one a number of proposals considered by a taskforce on rejuvenating the city centre.

Taoiseach Simon Harris will bring a memo to Cabinet on Tuesday ahead of the publication of the Dublin City Centre Taskforce report which he promised when he took up office.

It is understood it contains 10 proposals for initiatives to revive Dublin city centre, including recommendations for O’Connell Street with a particular focus on the GPO building.

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Gill, Cathal, Claudia and Ellarose, with Danny.
Gill, Cathal, Claudia and Ellarose, with Danny.

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Rocky Elsom: a court case in France threatens to overshadow a glittering playing career. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Rocky Elsom: a court case in France threatens to overshadow a glittering playing career. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

World

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