Mountjoy Square

because it didn't fit into who we wanted to be.

So Mountjoy Square, the infamous store where DIDO started, it just didn't fit into our style and the look and feel.

It wasn't about profits, but it was over three stores and I wanted big square boxes and I wanted to be able to do it.

So we're not afraid to make those decisions as well about what you're doing.

And he remained there for about 20 years.

And he subsequently lived in a tenement building in Mountjoy Square.

You're very familiar with Mountjoy Square.

Well, having

lived there myself in my misspent youth, I certainly am.

But he was a great, great crusader.

who also put his money where his mouth was and bought houses to protect them, to preserve them, in fact, for the future, including two or three houses in Henrietta Street, a couple in Mountjoy Square and in other places.

Other people that I met throughout the time was people like I mean, Deirdre Kelly was fantastic.

I mean, she was the head of the Living City Group, living in a basement flat at the time in Fitzwilliam Street, near the Arts Club, I think, on that stretch of Fitzwilliam Street.

And also Mariga Guinness, Desmond Guinness's first wife, who had bought a house in Mountjoy Square, which I visited with her.

years ago and this is in the late 70s and then eventually it was pulled down by the PMPA insurance company they just got a JCB with a hawser line and tied it around the house and pulled it into the street.

So that was number 50 Mountjoy Square as I recall.

There was special affection for how Frank described Victor Griffin, the former Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

that it is.

Yesterday afternoon, parking very close to Mountjoy Square Park, walking down to the Cusack Stand entrance, we passed such a different group of people that you really would not expect in any capacity walking those famous roads that lead to Crowe Park.

It wasn't an All-Ireland semi-final.

It wasn't an All-Ireland final.