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Written by Tom McKeown
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Sunday, 08 May 2005 |
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There were no factories or offices on Greenbank Estate
in my youth. There was The Showgrounds,
or soccer ground, but there also was – wait for it! – TWO dog tracks! Owners, bookies and punters would travel from
far and wide to ‘go to the dogs’ in Newry. During the summer, race days were Wednesdays
and Sundays, leaving Jack Mullan’s track after the first meeting and then into
Matt O’Hare’s. In the winter months it
was Sundays only but both tracks, so again it was out of one and into the
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Written by Tom McKeown
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Sunday, 08 May 2005 |
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Newry Agricultural Show is still held today. In the past it was held, in the Showgrounds –
now Newry City F.C. complex - on the last Wednesday of June each year.
A couple of us would
hurry home from school, grab a tin can and head at once for the Rampart
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Written by Tom McKeown
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Sunday, 08 May 2005 |
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After that long train journey to Dublin on Newry General Holiday, Amiens
Street Station was a welcome sight. The
passengers, women and men with children’s hands held tightly in theirs surged
up the platform past the ticket inspector and invaded Dublin.
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