One of the city’s best known theatres has been earmarked for demolition.
The Tivoli Theatre is known to many Dubliners as a place to go to shows, gigs and is home to a number of popular club nights.
But it looks like the theatre and surrounding buildings are being demolished to make way for a 298 room aparthotel.
A planning application for the Francis Street site was lodged with Dublin City Council just before Christmas.
Chair of the Council’s arts committee and local Councillor Rebecca Moynihan says she hopes a theatre space will be included.
"Keep the theatre there and have an element of art spaces within it. I think it would enhance the application and I think it would enhance what they're offering, what they're offering tourists and people who stay there".
Rebecca said the city development plan has a clause in it that new large scale projects have to include somewhere for the arts.
"When there are large planning applications going in, they're not simply for offices, they're not simply for apartments. That there's an element of, that we intrinsically recognise the value of arts and community space within the city and we try and retain them".
2016 was another bumper year for hotel stays in the city with tourism bosses saying we need at least 5000 new hotel rooms over the next few years to keep up with demand.
