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The Cabra Reunion 2010 will take place in the Addison Lodge, Glasnevin on Easter Monday, 5th April 2010. The evening will start off at around 8pm. Last years reunion  proved to be a great success and hopefully this one will also. Please let your family, friends and neighbours know. This is another great opportunity to meet up with old friends and neighbours from the Cabra West/Cabra area.  Look forward to seeing you all again…MC

PS: I’m researching material for my next book so if you have any family photos or stories you’d like included please let me know.

This is the site of the old Drumcondra Grand Cinema. A part of the original cinema building can be seen from across the road. Its possibly the original projector room and balcony area of the cinema. One particular film shown here was the 1941 movie ‘Love on the Dole’ starring Debra Kerr and Clifford Evans. One other actress in that film was Marie O’Neill who was born in Dublin in 1885. She died in Belfast in 1952. Marie appeared in no less than fifty big screen films mostly playing the part of an Irish woman. ‘Love on the Dole’ was about a young lady from Lancashire who decides to be a rich bookmaker’s mistress. It’s set in 1930s England and focuses on a family of four where the father works in a coal mine. The daughter works in a mill and falls in love with a factory worker, but he is killed after getting involved in a fight during a demonstration. She then meets someone else and she gets him to give jobs to her dad and brother, who have both been made redundant…has anyone out there seen this film?

A major fire gutted three shops in Capel Street last Friday night. Thankfully no-one was injured. The shops are situated down near the Liffey end of the street. One of the shops recently opened as a ‘Herbal Joint’ kinda shop. The other two premises were ‘Sex Shops’. (Am I allowed to use that word on this site?). The entire end of the street was blocked off while the fire department checked everything out. Several adjoining businesses had to remain closed.