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Sat 08 Aug 2008Dubliners' blues over politics and weather go back to 1608
DUBLINERS ARE used to complaining. But they may be surprised to hear that, 400 years ago, they were complaining about roughly the same things: foul weather, property problems and allegations of political corruption.
Archival material from 1608 also reveals Dublin's civic authorities had to carry out repairs to the main bridge over the Liffey - in a spooky parallel to similar repairs which began this week on O'Connell Bridge.
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