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Ballymun: From high hopes to broken dreams
Ballymun: From high hopes to broken dreams

Ballymun residents had reason to dream big in 1966, when ‘everybody wanted to live there’, with a number of high rises being built. Fast-forward to the present day and they are readying for the last remaining block to be demolished. Tom Farrell and Seamus Kelly report on where it all went wrong

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THE West Kerry gaeltacht retreat of singer-songwriter Jimmy Crowley is for sale as he prepares to swap Kerry’s moody landscape for the bright lights under an American sun.

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