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Shankill is an outlying suburb of Dublin, Ireland, on the southeast of County Dublin, close to the border with County Wicklow.^[1]

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Aircoach

Aircoach is an Ireland-based subsidiary company of FirstGroup.

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The assizes, or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court.

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Ballybrack

Ballybrack is a residential suburb of Dublin, in the south of County Dublin. Shankill, Dublin and Ballybrack are places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and towns and villages in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.

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Ballycorus Leadmines

Ballycorus leadmines is a former lead mining and smelting centre located in the townland of the same name, near Kilternan in County Dublin, Ireland.

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Battle of the Boyne

The Battle of the Boyne (Cath na Bóinne) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1689.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Benjamin Woodward

Benjamin Woodward (16 November 1816 – 15 May 1861) was an Irish architect who, in partnership with Sir Thomas Newenham Deane, designed a number of buildings in Dublin, Cork and Oxford.

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Bertie Messitt

Bertie Messitt (28 September 1930 – 18 February 2012) was an Irish long-distance runner.

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Blackrock, Dublin

Blackrock is an affluent suburb of Dublin, Ireland, northwest of Dún Laoghaire. Shankill, Dublin and Blackrock, Dublin are places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and towns and villages in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.

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Bray Daly railway station

Bray (Daly) Railway Station (Stáisiún Bhré / Uí Dhálaigh in Irish) is a station in Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Bray, County Wicklow

Bray is a coastal town in north County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Brides Glen Luas stop

Brides Glen (Gleann Bhríde) is a stop on the Luas light-rail tram system serving Cherrywood in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin, Ireland.

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Broombridge railway station

Broombridge is a railway station beside a Luas Tram stop serving Cabra, Dublin 7, Ireland.

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Carrickgollogan

Carrickgollogan is a hill in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown in Ireland, towards the southern border of the traditional County Dublin.

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Central Statistics Office (Ireland)

The Central Statistics Office (CSO; An Phríomh-Oifig Staidrimh) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in Ireland, in particular the census which is held every five years.

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Cherrywood Luas stop

Cherrywood (Coill na Silíní) is a stop on the Luas light-rail tram system serving Cherrywood in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin, Ireland.

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Chris Horn (computer scientist)

Christopher J. Horn is an Irish academic and businessperson, co-founder and CEO of Ireland's first NASDAQ-listed company, IONA Technologies, once one of the world's top ten software-only companies by revenue.

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Civil parishes in Ireland

Civil parishes are units of territory in the island of Ireland that have their origins in old Gaelic territorial divisions.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

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A community centre, community center, or community hall is a public location where members of a community gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.

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Counties of Ireland

The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island.

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County Dublin

County Dublin (Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath or Contae Átha Cliath) is a county in Ireland, and holds its capital city, Dublin.

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County Wicklow

County Wicklow (Contae Chill Mhantáin) is a county in Ireland.

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Credit union

A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution.

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David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, QC (3 December 1838 – 22 August 1919) was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.

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Dáil constituencies

There are 39 multi-member electoral districts, known as Dáil constituencies, that elect 160 TDs (members of parliament), to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, Ireland's parliament, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV), to a maximum term of five years.

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Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin in Ireland. Shankill, Dublin and Dún Laoghaire are places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and towns and villages in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.

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Dún Laoghaire (Dáil constituency)

Dún Laoghaire is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas.

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Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (Dún Laoghaire–Ráth an Dúin) is a county in Ireland.

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Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council

Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council (Comhairle Contae Dhún Laoghaire–Ráth an Dúin) is the local authority of the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

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Des Cahill

Desmond Cahill (born 12 December 1959) is an Irish sports presenter and commentator with national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann.

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Dolmen

A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Dublin and South Eastern Railway

The Dublin and South Eastern Railway (DSER), often referred to as the Slow and Easy, was an Irish gauge railway in Ireland from 1846 to 1925.

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Dublin Area Rapid Transit

The Dublin Area Rapid Transit system (stylised as DART) is an electrified commuter rail railway network serving the coastline and city of Dublin, Ireland.

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Dublin Bus

Dublin Bus (Bus Átha Cliath) is an Irish state-owned bus operator providing services in Dublin.

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Dublin County Council

Dublin County Council (Comhairle Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath) was a local authority for the administrative county of County Dublin in Ireland.

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Dublin Mountains Way

The Dublin Mountains Way is a waymarked long-distance trail in the Dublin Mountains, Counties South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

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Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore (born 24 April 1955) is a European Union diplomat, and an Irish former Labour Party politician.

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FIFA Puskás Award

The FIFA Puskás Award is an award established on 20 October 2009 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), at the behest of then-president Sepp Blatter, to be awarded to the male or female judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant, or "most beautiful", goal of the calendar year.

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Folly

In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.

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Gemma O'Doherty

Gemma O'Doherty (born 24 August 1968) is an Irish far-right activist and conspiracy theorist.

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George Morrison (documentary maker)

George Edward MorrisonPaul Levy, ‘FitzGibbon, Theodora (1916–1991)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 (born 3 November 1922) is an Irish director of film documentaries.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Go-Ahead Ireland

Go-Ahead Transport Services (Dublin) Limited, trading as Go-Ahead Ireland, is a bus operator in Dublin that commenced trading in September 2018.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Green Line (Luas)

The Green Line is one of the two lines of Dublin's Luas light rail system.

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Harcourt Street railway line

The Harcourt Street Railway Line (Seanlíne Iarnróid Shráid Fhearchair) was a railway line that ran from Harcourt Street in Dublin through the southern suburbs to Bray.

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Henry de Loundres

Henry de Loundres (died 1228) was an Anglo-Norman churchman who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1213 to 1228.

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IONA Technologies

IONA Technologies was an Irish software company founded in 1991.

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Irish House of Commons

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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James II of England

James VII and II (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685.

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James Rodríguez

James David Rodríguez Rubio (born 12 July 1991) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Brasileirão club São Paulo and captains the Colombia national team.

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John Hungerford Pollen (senior)

John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) was an English architect and writer on crafts and furniture.

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Killiney

Killiney is an affluent suburb in the southern coastal part of County Dublin, Ireland. Shankill, Dublin and Killiney are places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and towns and villages in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.

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Kilmacanogue

Kilmacanogue, officially Kilmacanoge.

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King's Inns

The Honorable Society of King's Inns (Cumann Onórach Óstaí an Rí) is the "Inn of Court" for the Bar of Ireland.

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Leinster

Leinster (Laighin or Cúige Laighean) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the southeast of Ireland.

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Lidl

Lidl is a German international discount retailer chain that operates over 12,000 stores, present in every member state of the European Union, Serbia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland

This is a link page for cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, including townships or urban centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and other major urban areas.

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Local government in the Republic of Ireland

The functions of local government in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-one local authorities, termed County, City, or City and County Councils.

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Loughlinstown

Loughlinstown is a southern Dublin suburb, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, on the N11 national road. Shankill, Dublin and Loughlinstown are places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and towns and villages in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.

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Luas

Luas (pronounced; Irish for "speed") is a tram system in Dublin, Ireland.

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Martello tower

Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary Wars onwards.

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Michael Patrick Kelly

Michael Patrick Kelly (born December 5, 1977) is an Irish-American singer, musician and composer.

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Mise Éire

Mise Éire (Irish for "I Ireland") is a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse.

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N11 road (Ireland)

The N11 road is a national primary road in Ireland, running for along the east side of Ireland from Dublin to Wexford.

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Open prison

An open prison or open jail is any jail in which the prisoners are trusted to complete sentences with minimal supervision and perimeter security and are often not locked up in their prison cells.

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Parnell Luas stop

Parnell is a stop on the Luas light-rail tram system in Dublin, Ireland.

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Pádraig Harrington

Pádraig Peter Harrington (born 31 August 1971) is an Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.

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Pinus sylvestris

Pinus sylvestris, the Scots pine (UK), Scotch pine (US), Baltic pine, or European red pine is a species of tree in the pine family Pinaceae that is native to Eurasia.

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Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland

A postal address in Ireland is a place of delivery defined by Irish Standard (IS) EN 14142-1:2011 ("Postal services. Address databases") and serviced by the universal service provider, italic.

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Provinces of Ireland

There are four provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.

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Puck's Castle

Puck's Castle is a castle ruin in Rathmichael, County Dublin, Ireland.

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Rathmichael

Rathmichael is a suburb south-east of Dublin, in the local government area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, near the southern border of the traditional County Dublin. Shankill, Dublin and Rathmichael are places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and towns and villages in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Restoration (Ireland)

The Restoration of the Monarchy of Ireland began in 1660.

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Ringfort

Ringforts or ring forts are small circular fortified settlements built during the Bronze Age, Iron Age and early Middle Ages up to about the year 1000 AD.

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Robert Day (Irish politician, born 1746)

Robert Day (1746–1841) was an Irish politician, barrister and judge, who was a highly respected figure throughout his very long life.

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Royal Dublin Society

The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) (url-status) is an Irish philanthropic organisation and members club which was founded as the 'Dublin Society' on 25 June 1731 with the aim to see Ireland thrive culturally and economically.

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RTÉ

i (Radio Television of Ireland; RTÉ) is an Irish public service broadcaster.

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Sandy Smith (cricketer)

Alexander 'Sandy' Victor Smith (born 11 May 1945) is a former Irish first-class cricketer.

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Santry

Santry is a suburb on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Coolock, Glasnevin, Kilmore and Ballymun.

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Sequoia sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirensSunset Western Garden Book, 1995: 606–607 is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae).

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Set (film and TV scenery)

A set is artificially constructed scenery used in film and TV.

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Shane Ross

Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross (born 11 July 1949) is an Irish former Independent politician who served as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport from May 2016 to June 2020.

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Shankill Castle

Shankill Castle and Gardens is set in parkland near Paulstown on the Carlow/Kilkenny border.

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Shankill railway station

Shankill railway station serves Shankill, in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

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Shankill railway station (DW&WR)

Shankill railway station was a station on the Harcourt Street railway line.

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Stephanie Zambra

Stephanie Zambra (born 13 June 1989) is an Irish footballer who plays as a striker for Shamrock Rovers of Dublin and the Republic of Ireland women's national football team.

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Stillorgan

Stillorgan (also Stigh Lorcáin and previously Tigh Lorcáin or Teach Lorcáin), formerly a village in its own right, is now a suburban area of Dublin in Ireland. Shankill, Dublin and Stillorgan are places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and towns and villages in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.

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Tallaght

Tallaght (Tamhlacht) is the largest settlement, and county town, of South Dublin, Ireland, and the largest satellite town of Dublin.

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Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland

Numbers on the Irish telephone numbering plan are regulated and assigned to operators by ComReg.

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The Kelly Family

The Kelly Family is a European-American music group consisting of a multi-generational family, usually nine siblings who were joined occasionally on stage in their earlier years by their parents.

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Thomas Newenham Deane

Sir Thomas Newenham Deane (1828 – 8 November 1899) was an Irish architect, the son of Sir Thomas Deane and Eliza Newenham, and the father of Sir Thomas Manly Deane.

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Tidy Towns (Ireland)

Tidy Towns (Irish: Bailte Slachtmhara) is an annual competition, first held in 1958, organised by the Department of Rural and Community Development in order to honour the tidiest and most attractive cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill,_Dublin

Also known as De shank, Shankill, County Dublin.

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Places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

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