They were calmer, more relaxed times then. Only the shopowners – in this case, Long’s Grocery Store, O’Hagan’s Hardware, Mitchell’s General Wares – and the ‘gentry’ – perhaps the manager of the Tax Office in the foreground – owned cars.
Newry News and Irish Fun
They were calmer, more relaxed times then. Only the shopowners – in this case, Long’s Grocery Store, O’Hagan’s Hardware, Mitchell’s General Wares – and the ‘gentry’ – perhaps the manager of the Tax Office in the foreground – owned cars.
Once again, we wonder whether YOU would be attracted – or repelled – by the names of the following restaurants !
Bogues, Brendan Paul
Cregan, Patrick James
Cunningham, Patrick Joseph
Digney, Jarlath Patrick : Schoolteacher
Dinsmore, Anthony Gerard
Donnelly, Terence
Finnegan, Patrick Gerald
Gilleece, Brian
Grant, Peter Edward
Gray, Matthew
Lonergan, Gerald Eamonn
Loughran, Brendan : HMRC
Mc Alinden, Kevin James
Mc Coy, Thomas Patrick
Mc Dermott, Peter
Mc Evoy, Bernard Eugene
Mc Stay, Kevin Eugene
Morgan, Ewan Gerard
Morgan, Kevin John : Chef
Murphy, Terence Joseph
Rodgers, Bernard Anthony ( Brian )
Skehin, Colm Brendan
Smyth, Francis Joseph : Schoolteacher
Tumilty, Daniel P.
Tumilty, Kieran Thomas
… more …
Continuing our Abbey Boys series with the Iveagh 2 class of 1971-72.
Newpoint’s latest offering kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday) night week (30th Sept) in the Town Hall at 8.00pm. Charlie Smyth presents the John B Keane favourite ‘The Field’.
In the week that the former site of much-loved store Woolworths reopens as two clothes stores, I think it is appropriate to recall some of the Newry people who worked there forty or more years ago!
Continuing our occasional series on school classes of long ago: this is one of four senior classes of the year 1971-72 …
A little dated, perhaps – but worth a run, I think – especially since the poet was an old classmate of mine!