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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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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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Dundalk trivia from a Trip Through Time with Peter Kavanagh

Q:What was the legend of 'The Black Cat of Castletown Mount'? A: This was a monster cat that was supposed to guard a fabulous treasure buried under Castletown Mount. Some say that it was placed there by marauding Vikings who hid ...

02 Jan 2022 at 20:00

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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 discoloured ...

16 Jul 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: Joining the Democrat sixty-nine years ago

A piece of nostalgia that I would like to share with my readers is that 69 years ago last week, April 20, 1953, I joined the staff of the Dundalk Democrat. I was taking the place of my late brother Paul Kavanagh who had ...

05 May 2022 at 02:57

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'What's the name?' Old Dundalk nicknames

Recently, when discussing old Dundalk nicknames that have been forgotten, I was asked if I had ever heard of 'Lanya Walla' and it brought back childhood memories of being told that a man riding a bike through the main ...

25 Jun 2022 at 22:00

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Trip Through Time: What cars were manufactured in Dundalk in the 1960s?

Answers to last week's questions: What cars were manufactured in Dundalk in the 1960s? Named the 'Heinkel' after the German company that designed it, the Heinkel Cabin Scooter was manufactured by a subsidiary of the ...

08 May 2022 at 22:00

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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 ...

02 Jan 2022 at 15:00

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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 ...

05 May 2022 at 02:58

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