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Hi Bridget,

I was looking through your stories about Dublin in days gone when I read about you going to Nellie Hoban's shop on Parnell Street. I spotted it because I was looking for any reference to the shop in a general search on the web. Nellie and Tommy Hoban were my grandparents, sadly both long since passed on. They died within 6 months of each other in 1977. He was still working for the Irish Press up until he died, if I remember rightly. They moved to Santry in the late fifties to be closer to my parents, Eileen (nee Hoban) and Harry Finegan. You may well remember them? They're both still very much alive, fit and well and in their late seventies now. I've often thought about getting them down there again and recording their memories of the area, long since changed since their days there. They often talk about Parnell Street and their childhood in the area now. It would be nice to have a permanent record of it all as talk about all like it was yesterday.

Anyway, hope you're keeping well.

Regards, Gary Finegan.