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		<title>Shiny, Happy People? </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shiny, Happy People?  &#160; Patrick Ryan reflects on the history of hi-viz clothing and how it could become compulsory for riders of bikes, scooters and similar vehicles here.  &#160; We’re used to seeing our highways and byways awash with swathes of green, white and orange for St Patrick’s Day and the lead-in to Ireland international games but we may soon see such shades year-round in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What the Loss of a Small Sound Reveals About the Modern Mind</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/your-say/what-the-loss-of-a-small-sound-reveals-about-the-modern-mind/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Croome]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What the Loss of a Small Sound Reveals About the Modern Mind There are certain absences that only become visible once they are pointed out. Walk through the city now and listen properly listen not just to what is there but to what is not. The streets are not quiet far from it. Traffic hums, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plans For Sports Pitch At Marrowbone Lane Move Forward</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/plans-for-sports-pitch-marrowbone-lane-move-forward/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aidan Crowley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans For Sports Pitch At Marrowbone Lane Move Forward By: Aidan Crowley: Plans are moving forward for the provision of a multi-purpose sports pitch in the heart of the Liberties, despite the doubts of some local residents, who thought that the project would never be delivered. Dublin City councillors were updated on the proposed redevelopment [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fermentation, Pickling and the Case for Eating in Season</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/your-say/fermentation-pickling-and-the-case-for-eating-in-season/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Croome]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[#Fermentation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fermentation, Pickling and the Case for Eating in Season Walk through a supermarket in Dublin in the middle of winter and you could be forgiven for thinking the seasons no longer apply. Tomatoes sit in neat rows bright and uniform. Blueberries are stacked in plastic punnets. Green beans, peppers, herbs, soft fruit all available all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rosaries, Red Robes And Rosy Glows</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/culture/rosaries-red-robes-and-rosy-glows/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#IrishCatholicism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rosaries, Red Robes And Rosy Glows &#160; As Easter approaches Patrick Ryan takes an affectionate look back at 10 items which despite the drop in Mass attendance from a high of over 90 percent in the 1970s, survive to this day. &#160; Cardboard And Coin For more than 50 years the Trócaire box has been part of Easter here. The simple cardboard containers arrived in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint Teresa’s Gardens Regeneration Project Update</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/saint-teresas-gardens-regeneration-project-update/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Keane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saint Teresa’s Gardens Regeneration Project Update The construction of the long awaited homes and amenities at the site of the old Saint Teresa’s Gardens, which is part of a bigger project officially titled the Donore Project, has been underway since May 2025 and it is hoped that 250 new social and cost rental homes will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Daffodil Day Brings Spring to Dublin in Support of Cancer Care</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/daffodil-day-brings-spring-to-dublin-in-support-of-cancer-care/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dublin city centre was awash with yellow today as volunteers took to the streets for Daffodil Day 2026, the Irish Cancer Society’s flagship fundraising event. Volunteers lined Grafton Street, O’Connell Street, and transport hubs across the capital, offering fresh daffodils and pins to morning commuters and weekend shoppers. This year’s campaign places a strong focus on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crowds Flock to St. Patrick’s Day Parade Brings Dublin Alive</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/crowds-flock-to-st-patricks-day-parade-brings-dublin-alive/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crowds Flock to Kevin Street as St. Patrick’s Day Parade Brings Dublin Alive Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day parade brought a surge of colour and celebration to Kevin Street yesterday as thousands lined the route to watch the national festival reach its lively finale. The parade, which began at Parnell Square before winding through the city centre, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day From The Fountain Resource Group!</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/happy-st-patricks-day-from-the-fountain-resource-group/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[FRG.ie Admin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day From The Fountain Resource Group!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sham Rogues, Purloined Poodles…and a Drought of Draught</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/sham-rogues-purloined-poodlesand-a-drought-of-draught/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[#FountainYouthProject]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sham Rogues, Purloined Poodles…and a Drought of Draught Our own Patrick, the frankly far-from-pious Patrick Ryan, takes a look at the colourful history of the St Patrick&#8217;s Day Bank Holiday.  &#160; “St Patrick was a gentleman he came from dacent people, He built a church in Dublin Town and on it put a steeple…” &#160; It’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Oscars 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/lifestyle/the-oscars-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane Adlum]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Oscars 2026 Roll out the red carpet, put the champaign on ice and practice those acceptance speeches. It is almost time for the 98th Academy Awards ceremony. This year’s event will take place this Sunday, March 15th, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles with Conan O’Brien on hosting duty again. Here is a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Construction Of New Meath Street Hotel Damages Holy Grotto</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/construction-of-new-meath-street-hotel-damages-holy-grotto/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aidan Crowley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[#Dublin8News]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Construction Of New Meath Street Hotel Damages Holy Grotto By: Aidan Crowley: Local councillors and residents in the Liberties have accused the developer of an under-construction hotel in the area of damaging the structure of a holy grotto at St. Catherine&#8217;s Church on Meath Street. During construction of the new Molyneux Hotel, a wall propping-up [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plans Published for School St Redevelopment</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/plans-published-for-school-st-redevelopment/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans Published for School Street &#38; Thomas Court Bawn Redevelopment as Major Liberties Regeneration Begins Dublin 8 — March 2026 Dublin City Council has formally published the long awaited Part VIII plans for the redevelopment of the School Street and Thomas Court Bawn flat complex on Marrowbone Lane — the first major step in a wider [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Sermon on the Bus and the Silence in the Pews</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/your-say/a-sermon-on-the-bus-and-the-silence-in-the-pews/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Croome]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Sermon on the Bus and the Silence in the Pews Ireland’s churches are ageing and increasingly empty, yet religious content thrives online. When faith appears in public today it often arrives less through parish life than through performance shaped by the logic of social media. Religion in Ireland was never quiet. It shaped schools, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The O’Connell Monument</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-history/the-oconnell-monument/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Healy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The O’Connell Monument The Daniel O’Connell Monument stands proudly on Lower O’Connell Street. The larger than life figure of the Irish Hero faces southwards with its back to the main thoroughfare and looks across O’Connell Bridge, towards Westmoreland Street and D’Olier Street. The whole monument is approximately 40 ft high. The length of the plinth [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Red Leprechauns and the Wearing of the Blue? Say it&#8217;s not true!</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/culture/red-leprechauns-and-the-wearing-of-the-blue-say-its-not-true/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Red Leprechauns and the Wearing of the Blue? Say it&#8217;s not true! &#160; For the month that&#8217;s in it Patrick Ryan took a look at 10 examples of the imagery and customs associated with the Emerald Isle and found a few surprises along the way&#8230; &#160; &#160; Green or Blue? &#160; From the Sydney Opera House to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Dublin Cannot Afford to Sacrifice Grafton Street</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/your-say/why-dublin-cannot-afford-to-sacrifice-grafton-street/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Croome]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[#StStephensGreenRedevelopment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Dublin Cannot Afford to Sacrifice Grafton Street When You step onto Grafton Street and the city changes its tempo. Not louder, not faster just fuller somehow as if every footstep carries an echo from the ones that came before. A guitar chord cuts through the air a whistle lifts above the hum of passing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Road Section Of James&#8217;s Street Remains Dangerous For Cyclists</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-news/road-section-of-jamess-street-remains-dangerous-for-cyclists/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aidan Crowley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Road Section Of James&#8217;s Street Remains Dangerous For Cyclists By: Aidan Crowley: Despite repeated warnings and the highlighting of potential dangers, a short road section of James&#8217;s Street, near the main entrance to St. James&#8217;s Hospital, remains very hazardous for cyclists. Heading out of the city centre, along James&#8217;s Street and approaching the hospital, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>British Subjects? No Thanks, We&#8217;ll Pass&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.frg.ie/local-history/british-subjects-no-thanks-well-pass/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Ryan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[British Subjects? No Thanks, We&#8217;ll Pass&#8230; &#160; With many of us planning summer holidays and trips abroad over the coming summer thoughts turn to renewing our passports, but the history of the document is as old as that of modern Irish state as Patrick Ryan discovers. &#160; It’s the most important book you can ever [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When did tipping stop being optional?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Croome]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[#TheTippingDebate]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When did tipping stop being optional? I’ve started noticing a small awkward pause whenever I pay. It happens at coffee counters takeaway windows and even in places where tipping used to play little role. The card machine swivels toward me and three buttons appear 10 per cent, 15 per cent, 20 per cent. To select [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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