The appeals board has refused planning permission to SRM Book and Cook Ltd for the scheme due to its impact on the historic setting of the ‘iconic and unique’ Liffey Quays.

Pro-Palestinian campaigners stage a ‘black shamrock’ demonstration around the Ha’Penny Bridge on Dublin’s River Liffey

Council said the proposed development due to its scale, height and massing constitutes an over-bearing, excessive and inappropriate form of development