Local people from the Irishtown/ Ringsend area were pictured on a trip to Woodenbridge about 1980.

Ruairi Quinn TD is pictured with recipients of awards at the 21st anniversary celebrations of Ringsend Community Training Centre at the Regal building in Ringsend.

Pictured at the recent 21st celebrations of RCTC in the Regal were Jane Roe, Mary Byrne and Tricia Kirwan.

Excerpt from CHRISTMAS TALES by John B. Keane

'IF THE Christmas that came to our street were a person he would be something like this: he would be in his sixties but glowing with rude good health. His face would be flushed and chubby with sideburns right down to the rims of his jaws. He would be wearing gaiters and a bright tweed suit and he would be mildly intoxicated. His pockets would be filled with silver coins for small boys and girls and for the older folk he would have a party at which he would preside with his waistcoated paunch extending benignly, and his posterior benefitting from the glow of a roaring log fire. There would be singing and storytelling and laughter.

Mr Liam Tilley of Bath Avenue can always be relied on to have the most brilliantly illuminated house and garden in the area. Every year he has a collection barrell for a deserving cause, so don't forget to donate as you admire the result of his hard work.

The children from St Matthew's School raised €700 for the Meningitis Trust on their Toddlers' Walk.

Above: Billy Young, John Walsh, Ted O'Connell and Peter Rossiter were pictured going on leave from the 'Irish Hawthorn' in Portuguese East Africa in 1957.