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Memories of local stockyards - Peter Kavanagh's Trip Through Time

That was something I had quite forgotten about, although I had often seen those vessels, as a boy during the World War II Emergency and noticed that the the pens at Greenore were packed with cattle and, after the War, horses on their way to Belgium ...

09 Jan 2022 at 21:00

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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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Knockbridge man was Louth's first chairman - Peter Kavanagh's Trip Through Time

Looking through an old edition of the Tempest's Annual recently, I came across a very interesting obituary for a prominent County Louth man of the period who died just before the outbreak of the First World War (or 'Great War' as it was known ...

02 Jan 2022 at 15:00

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Trip Through Time: The Dundalk Ragged School

Have you ever seen a 'Raggamuffin'? This term came back to me when I was discussing with a friend the origins of the 'Ragged School' in Dundalk of the 19th Century which is featured in one the answers to my Question Time this week. I must ...

01 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: The Flowers Blooming around Dundalk

Over the past couple weeks I have noticed that there seems to be great burst of growth in flowers and shrubs around the town. This late 'blooming weather' has been confirmed by a number of friends that I have been speaking to who have ...

28 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. ...

20 May 2022 at 22:00

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The Last Train to Greenore - Part II - Peter Kavanagh's Trip Through Time

I cannot leave my recollections of the old steam trains from the middle of last century without remarking on something else in Barrie's book about the Last Train to Greenore. In it he quotes a report from the Irish Press of the day ...

02 Jan 2022 at 12:00

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Dundalk's old Rampart Walk -Peter Kavanagh's Trip Through Time

While writing about the British Army leaving the Military Barracks, I recalled that, back in the 1940s, the Rampart Walk was just a cinder path from 'Tarry's Lane', as the narrow part of St. Alphonsus Road was known locally, to ...

05 May 2022 at 02:56

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Trip Through Time: Who in Dundalk was known locally as the 'Soccer Saint'?

Answers to last week's questions: Which Dundalk sporting venue was once known as 'Casey's Field'? This was the field on which Dundalk A.F.C. built their stadium 'Oriel Park'. The land belonged to the Casey family of Carrick ...

29 May 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: The changing Dundalk scene

When writing about the Butter Market I could not help recalling that there were many other things that have changed around Dundalk since the beginning of the present century and, more especially, since the onset of the ...

14 May 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Which Dundalk pub could not trade on Sundays?

Answers to last week's questions: Where was Dundalk's first motor vehicle garage? Petrol fuelled motor cars first appeared in Dundalk at the end of the nineteenth century and were very costly. The first owned locally ...

05 May 2022 at 02:58

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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 ...

22 May 2022 at 22:00

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