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Bally Bia have turned this derelict petrol service station idle for years in Ballydehob into a fabulous outdoor dining area.

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Back in March on a lockdown walk, I said something to friends which they still go on about it, and have just done this for my birthday...

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Rory Gallagher, Ballyshannon

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The Gravediggers, Glasnevin 1976. Photo: Ian Finlay

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Edge Hardware in Fairview closes for ever next Wednesday. 🥲Victor, the owner, is so cheerful, helpful and kind. When I called this morning he was painting small light bulbs red for an elderly customer, as he or she couldn’t get a red bulb anywhere for her sacred heart lamp. ❤️

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Olympic hero Eimear Lambe returns home to Cabra

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When #Depechemode played the SFX Dublin 40 years ago, photographer Adrian Boot shot the band hanging around Gardiner St for an NME feature. Includes Andy Fletcher in the Hill 16 pub (scanned from NME 12 Sep 1983)

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O'Connell St, Dublin 30 years ago. Bus stops & bins

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Pearse St, Dublin 2. Photo by Nevill Johnston 1952. (Bus stop outside Dub City Library & Archive)

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Ryans Pub Parkgate St Dublin 1976 Photo: Mike Bunn

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1976 Photo by Roy Esmonde

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The Long Hall, Dublin 2 (photo Life World, 1964)

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57 today! Happy Birthday Nick Rhodes, keyboard player with new romantic chart toppers Duran Duran.

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A Clerys Christmas plastic bag from 30 years ago.

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"Croke Park was almost deserted. Our photographer, Ray McManus, was on his way home too and then he noticed the solitary survivor on Hill 16..." [After Kerry beat Dublin in 1979 All Ireland final] From World of Gaelic Games 1979

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Jack Charlton said that when walking around Dublin in 1986 he deliberately sought out a pub off the beaten track. He found the Hill 16 pub on Gardiner St & it became his regular - unaware that Depeche Mode had a pint there too in 1983. (pic Adrian Boot)

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RIP Nobby Stiles. He married Catherine Giles, sister of John, in the church on the Navan Rd, Dublin 7 in 1963. Giles told lovely stories about Nobby in his autobiography.

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STRUGGLING to carry your shopping home? Toilet roll inserts make the perfect holder for your baguette ⁦ @TwopTwips ⁩

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5 years

Different because it's Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk.

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Here's an old photo of our beloved Clanbrassil Street 😍 Looking a little different these days 🤣 We wrote a little blog about our fav foodie spots in our area Give it an ole read:

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Shop worker at C&A, Belfast 1964. Photo by Brian Seed for Life magazine

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Tom Jones 79 today. He was 27 when photographed here at the TV Club in Dublin with Luke Kelly and Ciaran Bourke.

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RIP Sonny Knowles. Here with Kate Bush 40 years ago at Dublin Airport. (Pic Sunday Independent)

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Ballydehob

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In 1968 Jag comic presented 2 free gift posters featuring the club colours of all the UK AND Irish football clubs. I still have them. and will now post a close up photo of all the League of ireland clubs featured 1/

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Just 3 weeks ago my youngest daughter did her Junior Cert music practical exam. When I asked her how it went, she told me “it went good. I played the bass part of This Charming Man.” #RIPAndy

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Love this answer from Colum McCann in the @guardianreview today.

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The hair salon scenes in Education Rita (BBC4 now) were shot in Zoom Hairdressers in Stoneybatter D7 (now Mooz Italian deli)

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Lounge Bar, by Evelyn Hofer from Dublin A Portrait 1967

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#boi 1979

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Cadbury’s bars From Womans Way 1968

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Only noticed the Duran Duran detail today. They played Cabra a month after the Ramones.

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Children sitting on Queen Maeve Bridge, Dublin. Scanned from the Spirit of Ireland, published by John Hinde ltd 1997. This bridge aka Queen's Bridge, Queen's Street Bridge, and Mellowes Bridge

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Holiday at home. Discover Ireland brochure photos 1977

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Pavement artist at top of Grafton St. Shot before St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre was built - it opened in late 1988. Photo by Thomas Kelly. Scanned from Destination Dublin 1989

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In coffee shop Crowe St, Dundalk today. And, yes, there was a mirror in the bathroom

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Remembering the great Sean Hughes today, 4 years since his death.

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#OTD 24/9/78 The Ramones played the State Cinema in Phibsboro, Dublin 7. I stood in front of Dee Dee for all of the gig. In 2016 I returned to what was now a 2nd hand shop & took this photo. See the painting of Jesus on the top right? -that’s roughly where Dee Dee played.

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The Ha'penny Bridge 1933 From Fr Browne's Dublin: Photographs 1925-50.

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#OnThisDay 1983, Eamonn Coghlan wins the Men's 5000 metres at World Championships in Helsinki.

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Manhattan this morning.

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Gabriel Byrne is 70 today! He was 30 when photographed here with May Pang and Pandora Moore in 1980 when they recorded a pop single as Ménage à Trois.

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The night before the Brand New Retro book came out, I got a call from an unknown number. It was Philomena Lynott. Her friend Alan Amsby (Mr Pussy) had given her a preview copy. She thanked me for featuring Phil and wished me every success.

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Found by friend in house clearance, a Dublin millennium milk bottle repurposed as a bong. Or maybe, a table lamp.

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Ireland 3 Austria 2 at Dalymount Park, Oct 1963 (photo scanned from Sunday Independent, The Year in Pictures 1963)

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Westmoreland St, Dublin 2. From Geo Special magazine 1986

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This week 40 years ago. Joan Baez & Charles Haughey at Siamsa Cois Laoi in Cork. Photo Derek Speirs for Magill

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Desmond Dekker, born #otd 16 July 1941, in the Phoenix Park Dublin modelling clothes from Penneys with Mary Kelly ( Miss Ireland 1969) on #yamaha 125cc motorbikes. Scanned from New Spotlight magazine Oct 1969. Photos by Roy Edmonds

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Liam Brady. From Ireland’s Own 1987.

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Linda and Paul McCartney on the cover of Irish pop magazine New Spotlight, August 1974.

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Fairview, Dublin.

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Gort, Galway

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Birr, Co Offaly 1986. Look closer and see why photographer Pádraig Ó’Flannabhra called this a self portrait.

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#Penneys 1969 advert from Woman's Choice

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Vinyl storage now available on selected Dublin Bus routes

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Georgian doorway, Summerhill, Dublin. Photo by Cotton Coulson for National Geographic April 1981.

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#OnThisDay 1963, Johnny Cash played the Adelphi, Dundalk. Interviewed then by Spotlight he said " I know my grandfather came from Co Louth"

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O'Connell St, Dublin, looking south from the Savoy. 1988 and tonight. Doubt the 1988 photo was taken at 6.30pm on a Thursday.

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Terry Hall performing at the Stardust, Artane,Dublin, Jan 81. Photo: Colm Henry

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Happy #606day ! I bought mine forty years ago in London. I learned how to program it on the bus & ferry trip back to Ireland. Still have it and it still works. #TR606 .

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1968 #cmonthetown

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Our Dublin's Discos 1965-1980 exhibition launches this Thursday at The Other Hand/The Circular. An 'open gallery' will take place between 5-7pm where you are very welcome to come and view the exhibition...1/2

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62 today! Happy Birthday Mick McCarthy

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New Spotlight, March 1973

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Dublin had over 50 different nightclub locations during the 1960s & 70s. Discover the stories behind these first Dublin discos at our talk at The Circular, D8 at 7.30 this Thursday. Tkts on Eventbrite here...

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Remembering Philip Chevron who died on this day 2013. Radiator, Pogue and a wonderful guy.

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Last Race, End of the day, Galway Races Photo: Pádraig Ó’Flannabhra from his 1986 book, Ireland Beyond the Pale.

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#Bowie records in the Irish edition of the 1974 Green Shield Stamps catalogue. More about the stamps in #thewaywewere on RTE at 9.30 tonight.

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#OnThisDay 40 years ago. Dexys Midnight Runners played Dundalk as part of a short Irish tour. Just 2 weeks earlier they released their Searching for the Young Soul Rebels album. And Geno had been No 1 earlier in the year.

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Old shop sign revealed on Prussia St, Dublin 7 this morning. @DublinGhostSign

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Under the bridge in Talbot St, Dublin 1. From In Dublin 1980

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Tonight on @RTEOne at 6.30. The How Ireland Rocked the 80s documentary by @DeargFilms , first shown last Christmas, is repeated.

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At table quiz. 3 different coloured bags with Tayto, King and Walker cheese n onion crisps. You have to taste and identify each.

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RIP Larry (from New Spotlight 1969)

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#OnThisDay 40 years ago promoter Pat Egan @Pateganmgt brought Bob Marley & the Wailers to Dalymount Pk @bfcdublin . On an overcast Sunday the show ran from 2.30 to 6.30. 10,000+ attended. £7 in, kids free with adults. No trouble, just 2 arrests but many counterfeit tickets used.

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Jack Charlton said that when walking around Dublin in 1986 he deliberately sought out a pub off the beaten track. He found the Hill 16 pub on Gardiner St & it became his regular - unaware that Depeche Mode had a pint there too in 1983. (pic Adrian Boot)

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Lots in the media this weekend about Kate Bush's forthcoming 60th birthday. But nothing on her encounter with Sonny Knowles in 1978!

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1977 Dundalk band NRG with me on bass. Original b&w photo colourised!

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My son and I caught on TV after ⁦ @DundalkFC ⁩ s first goal today. #CmonTheTown

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40 years ago #OnThisDay 16/2/79 “Dark Space’, a 24 hour indoor music & film festival at the @projectarts . Acts included @u2 @virginprunes but PIL & Throbbing Gristle didn't play.

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Ad for PJ Hegarty & Sons LTD, 1984. The Lansdowne Rd, New East Stand lasted 24 years (1983 - 2007)

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Phil Silvers played the Gaiety, Dublin in 1974!!

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Remembering Phil Chevron on his birthday. Would have been 65 today.

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To augment my Dublin Discos 1965-80 exhibition (open to view at the Circular Bar D8 every Fri & Sat from 4pm), I've created an interactive timeline & map showing when and where over 40 of the first Dublin discos opened.

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Michael O’Reilly’s photograph of Bobby Kelly, lead guitarist with The Sands, taken in Inchicore, Dublin on 24 Oct 1968 for a New Spotlight fashion shoot.

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South Anne St, Dublin 2. Scanned from The Spirit of Ireland published by John Hinde Ltd 1997

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Remembering Dermot Morgan. 25th anniversary today.

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Watching North by North West on the Telly and we waited for the bit where the kid in the background knows the shot is about to come

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Happy 50th Birthday Steve Staunton. 17 in this photo by Ken Finnegan when playing for @onceaclan Dundalk in the Louth SFC semi final 1986.

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Cabra Voltaire

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Dublin's first open air rock festivals took place at Richmond Pk (St Pats) 1970 & Dalymount Pk (Bohs) 1977. The 1970 gig was a flop but the Lizzy gig at Dalymount was successful on so many levels. Watch “How Ireland rocked the 70s” on RTE1 6.30 tonight.

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Got some early 1980s NMEs in London on Friday. Only 99p each. Rik Mayall as Kevin Turvey from 1981

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Baggot inn, Dublin. 1976 Photo: Roy Esmonde

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How Ireland Rocked the 80s airs on RTE 1 tonight at 6.30pm. The documentary gives a viewpoint of Ireland in the 80s via the outdoor rock concerts held around the country then. Many thanks to director Brian Reddin & the crew at @dearglims for inviting me to contribute to the show.

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At 6.30pm on Tuesday, we take look at the big live outdoor music shows held in Ireland during the 1980s! #HowIrelandRockedThe80s

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Hey Jude reviewed by Larry Gogan in New Spotlight Oct 1968

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Blackpitts, Dublin 8. Photo: Lucy Johnston, 1989

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If the Witches Hut Salon reopened next Monday, which of Tony's team would you get to cut your hair? #Dublin #1971

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My review of that Dexys gig in Dundalk, 30 July 1980, for Too Late fanzine.

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In what is surely a first in the history of rock/pop music, the lead singer of a successful, acclaimed and influential band delivers a public apology to a provincial Irish town. ⁦ @DundalkDemocrat ⁩ ⁦ @LMFMRADIO ⁩ ⁦ @DroghedaLifecom ⁩ ⁦ @alisoncomyn ⁩

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