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Two years earlier, a fancy dress ball near Dun Laoghaire in Ireland, a guest called Mr Deane arrived dressed as Father Christmas and soon contrived to catch fire.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2014
JD Wetherspoon said that Heineken had refused to supply its lager - Ireland's biggest-selling draught beer - and Murphy's stout to Wetherspoon's second pub in Ireland, which is due to open in Dun Laoghaire.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2014
In Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County in southeastern Dublin, each home’s “black bin” for garbage headed to the landfill is weighed at pickup to calculate quarterly charges.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2012
On a freezing cold day in her turquoise-painted house on a hill snaking up out of Dun Laoghaire, she's as funny and warm in person as in her books.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
I stood onboard a ferry in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2012
The safety measures did not appear to chill the atmosphere in McLoughlin’s, a venerable, wood-panelled pub in Dún Laoghaire, south Dublin.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2020
The father of three is undergoing rehabilitation in Dún Laoghaire but this will take many years and require significant funding.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2018
She also bonded with her onscreen siblings, who were all holed up at a once-grand seaside hotel in the Dublin suburb of Dún Laoghaire.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2018
The Boomtown Rats formed in Dún Laoghaire, a Dublin suburb, in 1975.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2014
Photograph: Kim Haughton/The Guardian Just before Christmas last year Caroline Walsh, John Banville's successor as literary editor of the Irish Times, walked into the sea off Dún Laoghaire.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012
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