Showing posts with label Infirmary Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infirmary Road. Show all posts

Sunday 10 September 2017

Tommy May's and the Liffey Swim


The corner shop, that endangered species... One such local institution in Dublin 7 is - or rather, was - Tommy May's. Remember May's, near the bottom of Infirmary Road, on the wild western fringe of Stoneybatter, where Pat Kenny - the Pat Kenny - was born?

Wednesday 11 May 2016

O'Devaney Gardens: three videos


To some TV viewers, O'Devaney Gardens stands for a fictional block of dilapidated flats in Dublin where Ado (Mark Dunne) has a bolthole in Love/Hate.

To some politicians, O'Devaney Gardens is a real-life housing estate in Stoneybatter that shouldn't be knocked down just yet but should be temporarily renovated, then demolished: a €4.7 million sticking plaster for the housing crisis instead of a permanent solution. Talk about half-baked.

Friday 12 February 2016

Jerome Connor Place


Most passers-by won't even know it's there: the humble plaque sunk into the wall near the top of Infirmary Road, where the herds of 46a buses congregate.

Let's give it a dekko.

Wednesday 2 September 2015

Saturday 28 February 2015

Drovers and drivers on the North Circular

Here's an old photo of a herd of cattle  on the North Circular Road in Dublin. Yeah, we really did have regular cattle drives up and down those streets back then. Not exactly John Ford or John Wayne, maybe, but just as "awesome" in their own little way...