The Irish Times

The breadth of change sweeping Ballymun is staggering. Thirteen building sites litter its 600 acres. Some 5,000 new homes, in five distinct neighbourhoods, are in the pipeline, popping up in neat, in-fill developments or in streets and crescents whose relationship to existing houses will only be evident when the towers and blocks come down. Next year, the first of the towers will tumble. Within eight to 10 years, Ballymun's skyline will be humanised as all seven towers and the 29 ugly blocks gradually disappear.