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This start-stop experience is mentally draining : Publican Alan Campbell reflects on a tough year in hospitality

Sitting in the heart of Dublin City, at the corner of Trinity Street and Dame Street, is The Bankers Bar. Once bustling with friendly locals and tourists constantly dropping by, the quaint pub is currently a shadow of its former self, as a result of the pandemic. “Right now, I’m sitting in the office, looking at the cameras, at an empty pub,” says Alan Campbell, who has worked at The Bankers Bar since the late 90s and became owner in 2004. “There was always a buzz around the place, between tourists coming in and our regular customers visiting. I really miss that sense of ‘Céad míle fáilte’ (a hundred thousand welcomes).”

Around 90% of public support Dame St traffic plan

Dublin Correspondent Public submissions on a traffic plan for Dublin s Dame Street were running around 90% in favour of full pedestrianisation as the public consultation ended. Dublin City Council was asking for views on a ban on east and west through traffic on College Green and Dame Street as far as the junction with South Great George s Street. The plan has been made possible as the National Transport Authority has allowed for a bus free option for the area as part of Bus Connects. A previous proposal for a pedestrian plaza was rejected by An Bord Pleanála largely because of its effect on bus services.

Tributes paid to Olympia Theatre legend Maureen Grant

Tributes paid to Olympia Theatre legend Maureen Grant Updated / Thursday, 7 Jan 2021 07:48 Maureen Grant, aged 88, behind the bar in the Olympia in 2013 Tributes have been paid to Maureen Grant, the legendary member of staff at Dublin s Olympia Theatre, who has passed away at the age of 95.   The bar at the theatre is named Maureen s Bar in her honour. In a statement, the theatre said Maureen had been adored by staff members, artists, crew, and guests of the theatre for decades, and her loss will be felt far and wide. The Olympia s full statement reads: It is with very heavy hearts, that we must announce the passing of The Olympia s longest-standing, legendary staff member, Maureen Grant, on Wednesday 6th January 2021.

Visible Women 2020 - Making Visible the Invisible - Department of Foreign Affairs

Making Visible the Invisible By Dr Antonia Hart One of the things #VisibleWomen2020 champions is making visible those women whose stories have never been told. Close to my heart are those nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women in business, who have had little or no share in recent reassessments of women’s historical role in Ireland. There’s endless pleasure to be had, too, in exploring similarities with their entrepreneurial Belgian sisters, as creative, as hardworking, as tenacious.  The official record, in Ireland, can hide the truth of such women’s stories. The census recorded Kathleen Daly as having no occupation at a time when we know from her letters to her future husband, Tom Clarke, that she was running a hugely successful dressmaking business in Limerick. Someone struck through the space allowed for ‘Occupation’ for Mary Andrews although she was running a shop in Terenure and, in the words of her son Todd Andrews, ‘made enough to provide a rent-free ho

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