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Trip Through Time: Where was the Dundalk Charter School?

Answers to last week's questions: Where was Dundalks's 'Gallows Hill'? This is an old Dundalk name that is not much used today but in the middle of the last century most Dundalk people regarded it as being the County Jail at the Cresent where the ...

24 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: When did wall paintings first appear in Dundalk?

Wall paintings have become all the rage in Dundalk since the Covid pandemic started over two years ago and are now an acceptable part of the local culture - but that was not always the the case! It seems not all that long ago that the local ...

23 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: What in old Dundalk was 'The China Bridge'?

When were the cherry trees planted in Ard Easmuinn? The Ard Easmuinn private housing estate was built on lands west of the Dundalk Railway Station purchased by the Dundalk Urban Council in the 1950s. The mostly detached houses were built ...

31 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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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 Knights. ...

05 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Whatever happened to the F.C.A in Dundalk?

With all the talk since the beginning of the Ukraine War of Ireland being asked about the possibility of joining N.A.T.O., I was not surprised to be asked by a friend of mine recently --- 'Whatever happened to the F.C.A.'? This person ...

04 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 to the ...

22 May 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 ...

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 ...

20 May 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: On which side of the Dundalk 'Ramparts' do you live?

About this time of year the old Dundalk Urban District Council used clean the waterway we now know as the 'Rampart Stream' with long poles at the end of which were prongs for pulling out the weeds and deposit the 'spoil' ...

27 May 2022 at 22:00

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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 ...

29 May 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 ...

28 May 2022 at 22:00

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Where in Dundalk was the 'Bunch of Grapes'? -Peter Kavanagh's Trip Through Time

Answers to last week's questions: When was Dundalk's first annual 'Maytime' festival? There had been many attempts to establish an annual festival in Dundalk in late spring or early summer over the last hundred ...

24 Apr 2022 at 22:00

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