I went down Moore Street last week for the first time in a while, as I was in the company of a returning friend who has been away in Germany. He wanted to see how things were up there, in terms of attempts to move the street traders on and buy out all the remaining premises.
I was pretty surprised to see that in the middle of the street, near to 16 Moore Street itself, there were numerous new business premises in the forms of cafes. Obviously these are on short term leases, but it is excellent to see a bit of life pumped into the street again. On both sides of the street, stalls indiciated that market life has continued on too.
With property developer Joe O’Reilly well and truly NAMA’d, is Moore Street safe for the forseeable future?
I found a few old copies of An Phoblacht recently along with all sorts of other stuff and thought this piece on the issue of street-trading in the capital worth scanning up:
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
It’s great to go down Moore street these days and hear the calls of the street traders;
Hare extenson, hare extenson, phon unlok phon unlok….
While the Gardai were harassing street traders who had been trading for generations a few shabby t-shirt and trinket sellers were given licences for pitches on O’Connell bridge. It was rumoured at the time one of them was the son of a judge. Whether that’s true or not between them, the taxi rank, the bus stop and the bad tar surface O’Connell bridge is a disgrace these days. In the 80’s you could walk up Henry St into an approaching herd of pram dealers being driven like cattle by Gardai. Meanwhile on the bridge all was well. I presume they all have tax certificates too.
While all the crooks bankers and politicians pedophiles run free the harass these icons of Dublin how sad what a corrupt country Ireland is