Majority vote for 16 Moore St preservation

The only person to vote against the motion was Fine Gael's Chris Giblin, who said he feared that such a vote would hold up rejuvenation of the area.

The motion to save the house was tabled by Labour's Joe Costello, and followed a series of meetings involving Sinn Féin's Christy Burke, Fianna Fáil's Royston Brady and the Mayor Dermot Lacey.

The plan had been for the house to be knocked down to facilitate the rejuvenation plan for O'Connell Street and Moore Street areas which is long overdue.

However, following the council vote, the Dublin City Manager John Fitzgerald said he was very optimistic that preservation and rejuvenation could both happen.

Number 16 now looks safe, more than seven months after the National Graves Association began a campaign to protect it and An Taisce then rowed in behind it.