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- ↑ "Metrolink Preferred Route Design Development Report" (PDF). Jacobs Engineering. March 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2022.
- ↑ "MetroLink plan: 'The whole environment is going to be completely destroyed'". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
Glasnevin station will be built on a site occupied by Des Kelly Interiors and the Brian Boru pub
- 1 2 "Popular 200-year-old Dublin Pub to be demolished under MetroLink plans". dublinlive.ie. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
The planning application [..] was lodged with An Bord Pleanala in September last year [2022] [..] with construction expected to begin in 2025 [..] the 'Brian Boru' pub will have to make way for the Glasnevin stop