Fergus Finlay: The community that showed what a difference it can make in a day

I’d say it might be two years ago when I asked Denis O’Reilly if he’d ever heard of Dolphin House. I know it very well, he only knew it vaguely. And when he came up to visit, he was a bit doubtful. Which is not like Denis.

Dolphin House is a large local authority housing estate, built on the banks of the Grand Canal in the south inner city in Dublin. It’s more than 70 years old and crumbling badly. It’s a mix of some houses and mostly apartments. Up to recently it also featured a group of “bedsits” where older people lived. 

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