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Joseph Gaynor, a Galway busker

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Busking is the practice of performing in public places, street performances for tips or gratuities, voluntary donations. It may come from the Spanish word buscar – to seek (fame and fortune), or the Latin word buscare – to procure, to gain.

Outside, it’s Dublin. Inside, it’s the Westin

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Is it possible to get any closer to the heart of Dublin than you do in the Westin Hotel? Just 100 metres from O’Connell Bridge, lies this iconic building on Westmoreland Street which just screams elegance and grandeur.

Outside, it’s Dublin. Inside, it’s The Westin

Is it possible to get any closer to the heart of Dublin than you do in the Westin Hotel? Just 100 metres from O’Connell Bridge, lies this iconic building on Westmoreland Street which just screams elegance and grandeur.

The Quaker warmth of Bewley’s warm fires

(Written in December 2 2004, when Bewley’s cafe, Grafton Street, Dublin, closed for an indefinite period for refurbishment. Its future was uncertain. But I am glad to report that it is up and flourishing for some time, warm and glorious, its sticky buns as good as ever.)

Out of the Ordinary with Moya Roddy

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AMONG THE feast of events at next week’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature is the launch of the debut book of poems by well-known Galway writer Moya Roddy - Out Of The Ordinary, published by Salmon Poetry.

 

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