The Irish Times

It was the illicit demolition of Archer's garage on Fenian Street over the 1999 June bank holiday weekend by hotelier and property developer Noel O'Callaghan - still, incidentally, a director of Bord Fáilte - that put a spotlight on the fate of important buildings from the 20th century. Just as the value of many fine Victorian buildings was not recognised until after 1950, we have been extraordinarily slow to acknowledge the breathtaking architectural legacy of the last century, which is why so few of its buildings in Ireland have been listed as protected structures.