Orwell Road

This week Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council voted in favour of renaming Orwell Road as Independent Ukraine Road. The quiet Rathgar suburb has been ...

I don’t think it’s going to do the people [in Ukraine] any good,” she said. We’re sending money over, we’re opening our doors, there’s so much we can do in a real way. There’s so much we can do. “I’m 100pc in support of the Ukrainian people but I don’t see changing Orwell Road, the history of the road etc, for the next generation as helping Ukrainian people whatsoever. Mr MacDonald said he has a “certain emotional attachment” to the name Orwell Road and his business does have a “good association with the name”. “But I wouldn’t be against changing the name either, so I have mixed feelings.”

Orwell Road, where the Russian Embassy is located in Dublin, might be renamed Independent Ukraine Road after members of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County ...

Several protests have taken place outside the Russian Embassy on Orwell Road since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24. "It’s just a small sign of solidarity to the people of Ukraine, just to say the international committee are with them, the Irish community supports them, too," O'Brien told the Journal. All 20 councilors at a recent Dundrum area meeting of the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council voted unanimously voted in favor of changing the name of Orwell Road but agreed that local residents should be consulted on the move first.

A resident of Dublin Orwell Road where the Russian Embassy is located believes that a proposal to rename the road in support of Ukraine would have been ...

He said he would have given it some thought if the proposal had been presented privately to residents. He said he does not see this as a problem because they share the same sense of solidarity. If the proposal fails, he claims, it will imply that residents are anti-Ukraine.

The residents of Orwell Road have been expressing their views surrounding the proposed name change to Independent Ukraine Road.

The proposal might well have some merit but I think that the way it's been gone about is slightly unfortunate. I think it insinuates that if the residents of Orwell Road don't want to change the name of the road then somehow they could be perceived as being not in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and I think that's not how you should do things. Orwell Road residents have been reacting to the potential name change to Independent Ukraine Road, which has been proposed as a gesture of solidarity to the people of Ukraine.

Some residents that live on the road that houses the Russian embassy aren't happy about the idea.

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Orwell Road stretches between Rathgar and Churchtown. The Rathgar end of the road is located in Dublin City Council's area but the stretch of road where the ...

This is the first time councillors are proposing a change, he said. Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you