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Trip Through Time: 'Broken Turn' on the road to Blackrock from Dundalk

Noel Sharkey has also written in regard to my question about the meaning of the old name for the fields and boggy area near the 'Broken Turn' on the road to Blackrock which Dundalk people know so well. Noel says he had heard it said that the name ...

06 Mar 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: A new use for an interesting Dundalk building

Walking along the Rampart Road very recently I was pleasantly surprised to note that there will shortly be a new occupancy for the interesting square building located just past the Fire Station in ground that used be known as 'Bishops' Fields'. ...

17 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: 'Changing' Times in Dundalk

Readers, will no doubt, have noticed that there is not much money, in the form of notes or coins, changing hands these days and that most transactions in shops and service stations are in the form of credit cards, of one sort or another, being ...

12 Jun 2022 at 11:00

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Trip Through Time: Dundalk's agricultural past

My good friend Noel Sharkey from Blackrock has sent me yet another poem for publication which, I believe, will remind readers of the Dundalk area's great agricultural heritage! This is about Noel's experiences while doing work in Frank ...

11 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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Ships that sailed from Greenore - Peter Kavanagh's Trip Through Time

When writing the article last week about my memories of the last train that ran to Greenore from Dundalk on the night of December 31, 1951, I came across a series of articles written by Tom McDevitte, an old G.N.R. Railway Works clerk ...

09 Jan 2022 at 19:00

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Trip Through Time: The handover of Aiken Barracks

Standing in Aiken Military Barracks on Wednesday of last week during the ceremony to mark the centenary of the last British troops to leave Dundalk and its occupation by forces representing the Provisional Government on April 13, ...

05 May 2022 at 02:57

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Trip Through Time: Did you ever see a comet?

'We are living in strange times!' was the cryptic remark made to me by a pensioner friend who regards himself as a 'Local' through and through, as his Dundalk ancestors, on both sides of his family, go back generations. Now ...

15 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Dundalk's Seatown patron

At one time tomorrow, June 29, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul would have been considered the great festival of the Mid-Summer season in Dundalk, especially in the Seatown area. It was a time when there was music and ...

02 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Dundalk's Water Supply

The report on the front page of the Dundalk Democrat last week about 'discoloured water' appearing in Dundalk households in recent weeks has reminded me that it was not many years ago that Dundalk homes suffered ...

16 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Where in Dundalk was the 'Golden Cannister House'?

Answers to last week's questions: Q: What did Dundalk people of a century ago know as 'The Stannins'? These were the raised footpaths on east side of Earl Street that had two levels. It had been suggested to me ...

11 Feb 2022 at 23:00

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Trip Through Time: How did the 'Soldier's Point' and McKeown's River get their name?

The 'Soldier's Point' It is interesting to note that Ua Dubhthaigh’s Book of Dundalk refers to the end of the ‘Navvy Bank’ as ‘The Soldier’s Point’, which seems to indicate that he believed that there was just ...

25 Mar 2022 at 22:30

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Trip Through Time: A history of the Garda Síochána in Dundalk

We have been celebrating various events relating to the birth of our nation over the past six years, but one which has been scarcely mentioned and has greatly affected Dundalk over the past 100 years is fast ...

04 Mar 2022 at 23:00

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