Rolling back the years at Knox’s

When, last May, Drogheda woman Geraldine Kelly contacted The Tubridy Show about organising a reunion of hairdressers she’d worked with in a Dublin salon in the sixties, she did so more in hope than expectation.

The salon itself, Knox’s of Henry Street, Dublin had been closed for more than 40 years and Geraldine had long since lost contact with her old workmates. However the response was overwhelming.

And last week in Wynns Hotel, Dublin, 23 of Knox’s old staff — all sporting maiden name tags supplied by Geraldine to aid identification — met for lunch and a catch-up.