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Fleet Street
Dissected by Westmoreland Street and running from D’Olier Street at the east into the tourist trap that is Temple Bar on the west, Fleet Street is something of a stepping stone to the dubious delights of our not so cultural quarter. Starting at D’Olier Street the only thing of note in this part of Fleet…
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Trinity alumni; Lynn Ruane
Lynn Ruane is an independent member of the Irish Senate, representing University of Dublin (Trinity College). She grew up in the working class, southside Dublin suburb of Tallaght, became a mother at a very young age and left school at 15. She returned to education and in 2012 entered Trinity College as part of the…
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Iconic Rebels; Michael Collins
Cork is known as the Rebel County. Our new Taoiseach Micheal Martin is a rebel. So too was Michael Collins, the leader that Ireland lost in an ambush in his home county on 22 August 1922. Growing up the youngest of eight children, Collins fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and was imprisoned for his…
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Government at last
It only took 140 days, which compares very favourably to the 589 days that Belgium survived without an elected government following their general election of 13 June 2010. Of course it does not compare well with Our Big Brother Across The Water who got it all sorted in a matter of hours last time around.…
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Music legends; Michael Jackson
I had been on the blower with The Ceramics Skiing Dude. It had been standard chatting fare; putting the world to rights, stabbing a few people in the back, the usual stuff. It was near the end of the conversation, just after we had stabbed individual number 10 square between the shoulder blades, that he…
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Sporting icons; Alex Ferguson
Liverpool had Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley and now Jurgen Klopp. For Manchester United it has been Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson. The jury is still out on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Alex Ferguson grew up in a tenement house in Govan, Glasgow and began his football playing career as a striker with the Queens Park club.…
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Great women; Jacinda Ardern
At a time when there appears to be one or two dubious men with particularly strange hairstyles in high political office around the world, there does seem to be at least one woman sitting at the top table who has a bit of moral integrity about her. And she also looks after her hair. Jacinda…
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Music legends; Vera Lynn
The ‘Sweetheart of the forces’, Vera Lynn, moved on last week after an exceptionally good innings of 103. Starting out life as Vera Welch before adopting her grandmother’s maiden name, Lynn grew up in Essex, England, started her stage career at the ripe old age of seven and left school school early at 14 with…
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School goes International
It happened on foot of the podcast recording that The Dry Wit and My Good Self had done with The Tech Dude to promote The Virtual Music School For People With Disabilities. All of a sudden an electronic missal appeared in my inbox all the way from the west coast of the good old United…
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