Sean McDermott Street - Site of Conscience

Open Heart City is a volunteer-led response to the events of September 2018, when Dublin City Councillors, often with great emotion, backed a motion not to sell the 2-acre former Magdalene Laundry site on Seán McDermott Street to a Japanese budget hotel chain. The Councillors overwhelmingly recognised that to take the site out of public ownership would be to lose the opportunity to create an internationally recognised Site of Conscience at the heart of Ireland’s capital city and in an area that has suffered much economic hardship and social marginalisation since the foundation of the Irish State in 1922.  Open Heart City have undertaken a number of virtual consultation events to raise awareness around the campaign to create a Site of Conscience at Sean McDermott Street. This survey provides an opportunity for survivors , locals and others to give feedback on the ideas put forward within the consultation.

To watch a recorded version of the consultation go to the Open Heart City web site  http://openheartcitydublin.ie/previous-survivors-consultations-and-statements/

Or follow the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYssJ3IwgCjW7gFyIyt7J3A?view_as=subscriber

The objective is to gather this feedback , together with the proposals within the consultation and feed this back to Dublin City Council and Government to inform a way forward for the site.