Archive for August 2017

Is this the best little market?

With a business name like “The Best Little Market”, you’re opening yourself up for criticism. Surely that is for us the customer to decide? So, if you like markets, and want to see for yourself if the hype is justified, […]

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Interviewing the interviewer Port Walks

Interviewing the interviewer Port Walks

Port Walks is an art project by Sheelagh Broderick and commissioned by Dublin Port. Sheelagh is a former journalist and town planner. The aim of Port Walks is to bring together the people who use the area recreationally and those […]

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Daring plans for iconic towers

For most Dubliners the Poolbeg chimneys are a familiar and well-loved feature of the city’s landscape. The chimneys have knitted their way into the historical and cultural fabric of urban Dublin and most would agree that any photograph or painting […]

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Merrion Road’s Mothers, Daughters and Sisters

School reunions are usually decennial and even then numbers attending are scarce, but on the Merrion Road every year, past pupils of the all-girl Merrion School for the visually impaired, get together on the grounds of St. Mary’s Centre nursing […]

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Bath Avenue residents enjoy busy summer

Bath Avenue and District Residents Association (BADRA) has had a busy July with the task of landscaping their local area. They have put down a number of ‘planters’ around Bath Avenue and Sandymount to lift the appeal of the visual […]

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Dodder Action inspire change on waste reduction

Dodder Action inspire  change on waste reduction

Plastic pollution is choking our seas and riverways. Local volunteer group Dodder Action know this fact all too well. On their river clean-up days the main litter that is collected is drinks containers. Last April, Donnybrook Scouts along with Dodder […]

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The Cinema Corner – August 11th

If we’re honest, many of the revered movies of the ’80s don’t really hold up beyond nostalgia value. That can’t be said for Robert Zemeckis’s 1985 masterpiece Back to the Future. Featuring a never better Michael J Fox and Christopher […]

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Fair City Leave Site

Fair City Leave Site

A town in the Dublin 4 area that was built in the eighties, 100% state owned, has the most predictable climate known to man and its inhabitants known throughout the country for both good and evil deeds, is set to […]

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Charity Begins in Dublin 4

Charity Begins  in Dublin 4

Soon it will be time to pack away the summer clothes for another year and start putting together our autumn and winter wardrobes. As good a time as any for a style overhaul. If the idea of updating your look […]

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Doyle Brothers butchers closes after 79 years

Doyle Brothers butchers  closes after 79 years

Doyle Butchers of Pearse Street recently held a reception to say goodbye to longstanding customers. Tea and coffee and sandwiches were served as locals reminisced about the role the butchers has played in all their lives. Generations of family have […]

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