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The station opened on August 1, 1851. The buildings and the Great Southern Hotel were designed by John Skipton Mulvany. It was originally planned to have the station at Renmore, but the well-known Father Peter Daly convinced the railway authorities to construct Lough Atalia Bridge and bring the trains into the centre of town. The fact that he owned tenement buildings on the site where the Great Southern was built may well have had something to do with it. These tenements were levelled to make way for the hotel and station.

A former mayor has demanded that turning restrictions on traffic be lifted at one of the busiest junctions on the east side of the city, on the basis that the current system is creating a danger for both pedestrians and motorists.