Is Someone Moving Into Mrs Mooney’s Shop…?

Bridie! 5OCT16

s you will already be aware, dear readers, we here at GG HQ like to gather together as many pieces of the Greystones jigsaw as we possibly can.

Whether it’s archiving the past, pulling together our ever-changing present, or keeping tabs on plans for the town’s future, we’re keen to get it all down on record.

A large part of that is having something close to a complete picture of this wonderful town of ours for future generations to look back on, and for this generation to dig deep into, so we can all feel that connection that runs back hundreds of years, and will run forward for even longer.

That’s the large part. The small part is, hey, we’re just plain nosey about other people’s business.

So, when Max and I passed Mrs Mooney’s old shop today – on our way from talking with the lovely Laura Wood, and heading down to Jonathan Ellis at Coolnagreina, to find out more about their planned Youth Café – we were pretty excited and delighted to see that there was a new window display.

Having bid us all a fond farewell last Christmas Eve, Mrs Mooney has been biding her time when it comes to letting out her landmark shop, with members of her own family giving it a major makeover whilst the woman of the house contemplated the no doubt many calls from prospective business tenants.

Overcome with the delight that, over 9 months later, the old shop was about to become a new venture, we couldn’t help ourselves. We door-stepped Bridie Mooney.

Well, she is a superstar, after all. Being hounded by paparazzi is just a jerk of the job…