Golden years: Colm Keena on why Dublin was the best place to be growing up in the 1970s
Starman: If you had a few quid you could go into town and buy David Bowie’s latest LP. Which prompted this reader to answer, “Me, maybe,” and recall how during my teenage years I had been taught how to shoot. We signed up in a Dublin barracks, I think Griffith Barracks, on the South Circular Road (now an educational campus). Our platoon met every Sunday in Cathal Brugha Barracks in Rathmines on the other side of the city from our homes. In Duncannon we could leave the barracks in the afternoons and muck around in the water in army canoes.
Source: The Irish Times January 12, 2026 01:48 UTC
