The music stopped a long time ago at the famous Olympic Ballroom in Dublin but it seems that the two step between the owners of the "ballroom of no romance" as one writer dubbed it, and the planners continues. The owners have failed in their latest attempt to get planning permission to demolish it and replace it with a mixed development. The Planning Appeals Board has ruled that the proposed scheme would be damaging to the amenities in the area. So it's back to the drawing board.

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