Swedish furniture giant IKEA has been blocked from building a massive new store at Cherrywood in south Dublin.

The compnay had wanted planning permission amended to allow it construct a flag-ship outlet, with 1,500 car parking spaces.

Following a long hearing, An Bord Pleanála has ruled it will not alter a current masterplan for the area to allow for a large-scale warehouse store.

If the plan got the go ahead, it would have created 400 jobs. IKEA already has stores in Ballymun and Belfast.

Cherrywood resident and Green Party spokesperson on Transport, Tom Kivlehan, says Dublin does not need a second IKEA outlet.

The firm employs some 131,000 workers in 41 countries, and has annual sales of more than €24.7 billion.