Colm Greaves: Final closing of Harold's Cross is an intangible loss

Harold’s Cross Greyhound Stadium, which closed for the final time last month. Colm Greaves takes us through the now finite history of the sporting venue.

There’s a poignant scene in the musical version of Les Miserables when one of the main protagonists, Marius, returns to the café where he and his friends had planned their failed revolution.

He is the only one to have survived the uprising and guiltily laments his lost colleagues in one of the show’s big set piece songs, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables. Even though the scene measures about eight and a half on the soppiness scale, it does convey the sense of sadness for places and times now gone and the memories buried with them.