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We’re hoping to catch up with the McNiffs soon, to talk about their sterling work down
I returned from my holidays to find many of the old timers waiting to pounce and tell me that the name on one of my pictures was wrong. The third man in the picture of the three fishermen was not Star Lynch at all, but Nicorra Murphy. Bray People – 9th Sept.
For once there is praise on all sides for the Co. Council and the builders of the newest local authority housing in the town, known as Kenmare Heights. Before the houses were handed over, the area was landscaped and grassed.
Don’t let anyone kid you about how the Irish are known far and wide throughout the world. It’s not true, at least not in France.
When the four candidates for Mayor report on progress to the committee later this week, Suzanne Davis will be telling them of her smart move.
Hilarie O’Dea, from the Senior Citizens Group, called to tell that they had a surprise gift of ÂŁ15.
The men in the photo are Jim Darcy (standing), Paddy Salmon, Willie Tucker, John Spurling, Square Byrne.
The extraordinary thing about the two letters is that the two men with a ten-year age gap have such different memories of a small village. By the way, the enlarged version of the photo hangs in The Wicklow Arms.
While we are on the subject of The Wicklow Arms, the Spendloves, who now run the pub, asked me to mention that they have an engagement ring, which was found in the ladies cloakroom before Christmas.
Among a list of good things about Greystones long ago remembered in readers’ letters was Vic Lovings and her travelling Stage Show.

Mightier than The Swords Chronicle
ong before the Guide came along and started being a smartarse about all
the goings on in this town, Greystones was covered by journalists with a lot more TLC and actual journalistic skill.
Down through the years, many of them appeared in the local rag The Wicklow People – and later, it’s Bray People off-shoot – keeping us yokels up-to-date with cake sales, mayoral elections, found engagement rings and the burning down of the teenager’s hang-out hut.
And those young tearaways Ciaran Hayden, Patrick Brady and Cyril Vickers had spent so long making that hut all warm and cosy. Heartbreaker.
Just to show how much life in Greystones has changed, and how much of it has stayed the same, we’re reproducing two of installments of Gwen’s Week, published as part of The Bray People‘s weekly Greystones Roundabout – one from Friday, September 23rd 1983, the other from Friday, March 16th 1984.
Gwen McNiff – and her husband, Peter – have worked wonders in the field of Irish journalism, especially when it comes to recording local Greystones history.

Pierre LeSniff
2 comments
Loving reading the almost gobbledegook that is the written translation to the video interviews!!!!
And now, kindly, you’ve given us some gobbledegook to enjoy too. Cheers!