Landmark Dublin nurses’ home to be sold on open market
The Health Service Executive (HSE) in Dublin is putting the historic Weir Home on the open market after failing to find a state body to repurpose the building. The property, formerly a nurses' home and mental health facility, has been vacant for years following the collapse of a deal with the Peter McVerry Trust.
Why it matters
It highlights the challenges of managing state-owned heritage assets and the impact of governance failures in the charity sector.
A vacant Dublin building is to be sold on the open market after its owner, the Health Service Executive, failed to secure the interest of any State body in making use of it.
The Weir Home, an Edwardian nurses’ home on Cork Street in Dublin 8 , was to have been converted into housing by the Peter McVerry Trust.
However, the deal collapsed after the homeless charity became mired in financial and governance crises three years ago.
The HSE has spent more than two years trying to drum up interest from other parties, including different housing bodies, Dublin City Council, the Land Development Agency (LDA) and any other State agency which might need office space or other accommodation, but no one has been willing to take on the large protected structure.
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