The Seán O'Casey Bridge spans the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. It links City Quay in the Grand Canal Docks with North Wall Quay and the IFSC. Cyril O'Neill was the architect and O'Connor Sutton Cronin the engineers, though the infobox credits Brian O'Hallaran & Associates as architects. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority built it as part of an urban renewal scheme.
It is a cable-stayed pedestrian swing bridge with two balanced cantilever arms that open for river traffic. The total length is 320 feet (97.6 meters), the width is 15 feet (4.5 meters), and it has three spans. It opened on July 13, 2005, and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern opened it.
It won a 2006 IStructE award for pedestrian bridges. Around 2010 its remote control was misplaced, and the bridge could not open for about four years, until a replacement was reprogrammed in 2014.
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