The authorities in the Irish capital, Dublin, have unveiled a scheme costing more than one-hundred-and-sixty-million dollars to regenerate the main street in the city, O'Connell Street.

The focus of the project is a shopping and entertainment centre with more than a dozen restaurants.

There are also plans for a glass-covered market.

In recent years the street has fallen into disrepair and become a centre for thieves and drug-dealers.

A former mayor, Thomas Stafford, said O'Connell Street should be Ireland's equivalent of the Champs Elysee.