Light side of the street: The housing estate featured in Alan Parker's film The Commitments has undergone an £8.5m rebuild.

The36 tower blocks on the Ballymun estate in Dublin have been demolished and replaced with 95 new homes – low-rise apartment blocks and single-storey houses. A new swimming pool and leisure centre have also been built.

Architect Levitt Bernstein designed the first batch of homes for landlord Ballymun Regeneration. GEM Construction built the scheme.

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Housing Today