In 1984, at the height of massive unemployment, Ruairi Quinn, then local TD and Minister for Labour (now Enterprise and Employment) introduced what was known as the Social Employment Scheme. This was an innovative scheme that actively encouraged
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Seán Moore will always be synonymous with Ringsend. He is remembered by the prestigious Seán Moore Awards as well as Seán Moore Road and Park. Seán was born in 1913 and grew up in Irishtown and was educated locally at the Vocational School in Ringsend.
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Leafy Beechwood Avenue in Ranelagh is about to be added to the destination for Irish Americans, tourists, and film buffs alike, following the erection of a commemorative plaque in September to honour Maureen FitzSimons, better known as Maureen O’Hara, at no. 32
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I was just a kid, maybe nine or ten years old when Rosa came into my life. She was so pretty, young, and fun! I remember being in the kitchen of Bryndhu (our family home on Claremont Road, Sandymount, where Mike and I grew up) when Ma told me the news that Mike and Rosa
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We all know who Count Dracula is, we’ve seen the movies, put the fangs in at Halloween, maybe even read the book, but did you know that the Irish author Bram Stoker was a regular around Ringsend back in the 1800’s? Nope? Me neither! Local historian Eddie Bohan,
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In 1977 The Blades played their first ever gig as a then six-piece band at the teenage disco run by the residents association. The line up that night was the late and sadly missed Laurence Cleary, his brother Paul Cleary, Pat Larkin, Johnny Burke, Joe Donnelly and Liam Fagan.
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A memorial plaque tribute for renowned local sportsman, John “Wembo” Young was officially unveiled back in August in Ringsend Park on the big astro pitch which will also be renamed, The John Young Astro. This touching, bittersweet occasion was to honour John,
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Donnybrook, once a thriving village, has in recent years succumbed to the invasion of the dreaded high-rise. With the new monstrosity at the bottom of Eglinton Road, and a six-storey, 85-unit co-living complex where Kiely’s once stood already a fait accompli (adding to that the disappearance
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Anthony (Tony) Jordan, whose death a year ago we still mourn, was the man who reclaimed for Sandymount the poet William Butler Yeats. Tony organised annual poetry readings on Yeats’s birthday here on the Green. Always imaginative and inclusive, he involved a range of local people,
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