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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'. This ...

17 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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It is time to celebrate the life of remarkable Dundalk woman Dorothy Macardle

What with the talk I gave on Dorothy Macardle in Dundalk Library and the fine full page article by Gene Yore in Dundalk Democrat, there has been sufficient interest in Dorothy to warrant a full weekend exploring her activities both political and ...

18 Dec 2016 at 12:44

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Trip Through Time: Dundalk, the Bicycle Town

When I was a school-going child Dundalk was known as the 'Bicycle Town' because, it was believed that the population owned more pedal cycles per head than any other town in Ireland. This was partly because of the 'Wartime Emergency' when petrol ...

03 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: The time Radio Caroline docked in Cooley

The furtive pleasures of listening to something that might be illegal, however, came to the fore again when the pirate radios started broadcasting in the early 1960s and, I believe, this part of the world was in the lead in listening when ...

21 May 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Early radio broadcasting in the Dundalk area

Some Dundalk radio enthusiasts might be surprised to learn that community radio stations have been broadcasting in the area for close on 60 years. In fact, radio transmissions have been picked up in Dundalk for much longer than that. I ...

20 May 2022 at 22:00

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DUNDALK HISTORY: Do you remember 'The Turn of the Century'?

People of today when referring to 'The Turn of the Century' are nearly always speaking about the changes that have taken place in Ireland since the year 2000, which is fair enough, but to those of my generation; and, I suspect, to ...

11 Sept 2020 at 18:06

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Trip Through Time: Where in Dundalk was the Sheila factory?

Answers to last week's questions: Who was Setana? Setana was the birth name of the legendary hero Cuchullain. He was the son of Dectine, sister of Conor (or Conchobor as he is sometimes known), the famous head of the Red Branch ...

05 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Where did the E.S.B. open their first showroom in Dundalk?

Answers to last week's questions: Which Dundalk commercial anniversary occurs on June 1? On Saturday June 1, 1912, the electrical power supplied by the Dundalk Urban District Council's Power Station was permanently switched on ...

22 May 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through time: Dundalk's 'Most Hallowed Ground'?

The answer in my Question Time this week about 'Simmon's Hotel' was inspired by the fact that I noticed that the old building in Frances Street is being renovated at present. I do not know if this is a 'listed' building for ...

10 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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Event to remember the six Louth men who died in Spanish Civil War

2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, a war which idealists and radicals from around Europe volunteered to fight in the defence of the Republic. Six such men left North Louth never to ...

07 Mar 2017 at 17:41

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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, ...

12 Jun 2022 at 11:00

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Trip Through Time: The roses are doing well this summer

Gardens around the Town are looking particularly well this month of June and I would particularly like to praise the rose growers of Dundalk because it seems to me that this flower has never looked better than it ...

18 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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