That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went
and cannot come again.
I was brought up in the Seventies. Strong colours and oversized jumpers. These are my memories. The boundaries of my world were the Harmonstown road to the Santry river, the shops on Edenmore park, the old […]
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Great post on 1913 Dublin over on The Irish Story, which includes an interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913.
Check it out here.
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Posted in dublin on May 25th, 2010 12 Comments »
In the June budget the Minister for Finance, Mr. Richie Ryan, announced that the two major Associated Banks [Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Bank] had agreed to make £40 million available to house purchasers over the next two years. The two major banks were each to make £10 million available for house purchase loans […]
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Posted in racism, dublin, football on Apr 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
Attention should be brought to this post by hxci over on ‘Come Here To Me’ regarding a march tomorrow in memory of Toyoshi Shitta-bey murdered in West Dublin on Good Friday. hxci makes a particular appeal to L of I fans to turn out - but I’m sure the more diverse the turn-out the better.
I […]
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[Statement issued by CPSU, 19 March 2010. Apologies for the delay.]
The Civil Public and Service Union which represents lower paid clerical workers in the Civil Service says today’s (Friday) debacle at the Passport Office in Molesworth Street in Dublin was the result of appalling mismanagement. The union sympathised with the hundreds of irate clients […]
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Posted in dublin on Mar 30th, 2010 18 Comments »
Most Irish people, certainly of my 40-something age anyway, have lived in rented accommodation at some stage in their life. And of that, more than a few of us have lived in bed-sits.
I’ve worked out that in the past twenty years or so I’ve had 16 different addresses - shared houses, apartments, flats, etc. The […]
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Posted in Economy, dublin on Mar 28th, 2010 4 Comments »
Posted in dublin on Mar 25th, 2010 3 Comments »
Clonliffe Road today.
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This may be more the territory of our observant friends at dangerhere.com as, I warn you in advance, it contains a raw unedited Hamiltonism. It’s a video posted on YouTube by BohsTV which is also available on the Bohs official site, where I spotted it first. It documents the first, and possibly only, […]
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Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, Paddy O’Gorman comes along to ask you how you are feeling.
From outside the Passport Office today.
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