I am grateful to my friends and pals of yesteryear, Vincie and Eric McAllister and Maureen Drummond – and more recently Pat O’Hanlon - for their assistance in compiling this list of early residents of Orior Road fifty years ago.I would be delighted to be corrected on continuing errors!
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the early Sixties we lucky teenagers of the baby-boom generation were discovering an exciting new world of interesting and frisky girls, darkened
cinemas wherein to meet them or hanging out in meeting places such as Tommy
Burns's Satellite in Kilmorey Street and enjoying occasional fairground attractions in
that same part of town.
Jury deliberates on Dublin murder trialThe jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a Google employee by fatally stabbing him following an altercation in the street is due to begin its deliberations tomorrow morning.
Unions bid to save cervical cancer vaccine programmeThe country’s three biggest health service unions were tonight trying to broker a €20m cost-cutting plan to rescue the scrapped cervical cancer vaccine.
Collins acted 'like a caged animal', court hearsA security supervisor has claimed former world boxing champion Steve Collins was "like a caged animal" shouting obscenities at an Albanian bouncer moments after he allegedly punched him in the face.
