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00:00Two pounder chops, no, for 50 pounds.
00:03It's a match, ten, three euro.
00:05Deep in Dublin's north inner city lies Moor Street.
00:10Known widely for its history and its traders,
00:13all life is on the streets.
00:16I want to contribute to the society.
00:18Don't be worrying, just spend, spend, spend.
00:21This iconic street has become one of the most diverse places in Ireland.
00:25And while its future is uncertain...
00:27It's the not known where we're going to end up.
00:30That's the stressful part.
00:31There's no place quite like it.
00:33It's going to make you, or it's going to break you.
00:37Sure.
00:53Yeah?
00:54Sorry for you.
00:56Eh, a little bit more.
00:58Tore it out a little bit more.
01:04Come on, Pippe.
01:07Come on.
01:11Put your doll down.
01:15Put your doll down, Pippe.
01:17What?
01:17Put your doll down.
01:18Where shall you put it?
01:19Put it up on the table.
01:23See, this is what I have to do now every day.
01:26It's what we have to do every day.
01:29Yeah.
01:30So when you take over, this is what you're going to have to do.
01:32Yeah.
01:33And who was here before you was your nanny Chick and your nanny Angela.
01:43At number seven Moorstreet, brothers Stephen and John Troy run one of two butcher shops on the streets.
01:50A fifth generation family business, butchering is in their blood.
01:55We're the ones that carry the Troy man now, but in the butchering trade, we're the Troy family was...
02:02Tore down to them, Stephen, wasn't it?
02:03Yeah.
02:04And believe it or not, the boys, the only boy that wasn't a butcher was her father.
02:08He was actually a carpenter.
02:10The rest of them are butchers, all of them.
02:12But we're the only two left here.
02:15He's a great butcher, master butcher, better than me.
02:17He's the backbone on the brands.
02:24I'm the parent of college, eating the pound of sprouts.
02:27You can't go wrong when you come to the military, the biggest supermarket in Europe.
02:31My uncle Christy would be well known.
02:33He's in a lot of videos over the years, including the RT archives, for shouting out the prices at the
02:38door.
02:39Mince people, 50 times.
02:41The pound alarms are able for 30 times.
02:42He'd be shouting out, you know, three pound of rib mints for 180.
02:46There's five large Dolly Partons there for 8.99.
02:49Stuff like that.
02:51I have to ask, what's a Dolly Parton?
02:53Chicken breasts.
02:59So, this is Mae Gorman, and she was the old fish seller, and she was the Queen of Moorstreet.
03:06And this is believed to be Rosie Johnson.
03:08It was painted in 1933.
03:11The Queen of Moorstreet is when all the traders get together, all the street traders, and they elect, you know,
03:17a Queen of Moorstreet.
03:19It's normally somebody who has devoted their lives to trading on Moorstreet.
03:23We had Rosie Johnson with Mae Gorman, with Terminal Nooney.
03:27She was our last Queen.
03:29In recent years, we were hoping to inaugurate a new Queen, let's say.
03:33But nobody seems too keen at the moment with everything what's going on.
03:46Not everyone on Moorstreet comes from generations of family traders.
03:51There are plenty of new faces here, like Edizemi, known as Mama She, serving more exotic fare.
03:57We have jollof rice, spicy green chicken, and beef in the sauce, and then plantain.
04:07The others, the sizzling is not there, but hers hits the spot, you know.
04:14Mama, she is the mummy, the mother of all African community youths, because, yeah, we bring the taste of Africa,
04:23we bring the taste of Nigeria.
04:24So, at least they can walk now down the street and just get African food.
04:31So, it's very important for them.
04:33Moorstreet is very different.
04:35It's a place where community comes together.
04:40I get to see different people from different nationalities.
04:45I see more of my own community as well.
04:49I only bought a 15-year-old.
04:51These are very, very long-term vendors on Moorstreet.
04:59You see, there are about three fascinating women that are quite older, older than myself.
05:07And so, what I do, sometimes I buy things off them.
05:12You know, just gradually I was building that relationship with them.
05:18That's my grandma.
05:21My best friend on this street.
05:25This is Moorstreet.
05:26She's only after I'm finding out where my grandmother is.
05:29Your grandmother has food here, wow.
05:32Yeah, it's a small wall, isn't it?
05:34Yeah, I stay too long in the bathroom.
05:36Yeah, yeah.
05:38That's where she doesn't get the colour from.
05:40Yeah.
05:41Still dark, yeah.
05:43I would equally exchange food.
05:46So, sometimes they'll say, oh, mama, don't worry, just take this.
05:51They give me things for free.
05:53So, I give them food.
05:55So, that was how I started building that relationship.
05:57Take it through the window.
06:01They know that, oh, mama is round there behind, at the corner there is mama.
06:05You know, she brings in all the people to Moorstreet.
06:07So, they are seeing me as the person bringing, you know, the community.
06:13I travel from Portlaoise, yes.
06:17Yeah, everybody comes to Moorstreet.
06:19If you want to get anything, just come to Moorstreet.
06:27May is an icon of Moorstreet traders and for traders all over the world.
06:32Because you look right, she's a fantastic woman.
06:35May loves the street.
06:36She lives and breathes Moorstreet.
06:38We don't.
06:39Moorstreet's keeping May alive.
06:41It's killing us.
06:42I can honestly tell you that.
06:50I'll have a look.
06:51There was a number.
06:51We were 87A.
06:53Former fishmonger Margaret hasn't traded on Moorstreet for five years now.
07:00A87.
07:01That's my spot.
07:05And they got almost beside me.
07:10And I know they took this all away because of the anti-social behaviour, you know, so if I was
07:16coming back tomorrow or the next day, they might take it back out for me.
07:19But there's nothing to come out for.
07:21But there's nothing to come out for.
07:21The street is dead.
07:23You know, there's a part of me that will always be in the street and it's gone.
07:27And I really feel sad about that.
07:29There's no future in this street.
07:31How are you?
07:32It's lovely to see you.
07:33I mean, I look very well.
07:34You see what they say?
07:36The blondes have more fun.
07:37I'm still waiting.
07:38It never happened.
07:40Most of the men in my mother's day were male chauvinists.
07:44Like my mother, for instance, she married my dad and she had 14 pregnancies.
07:48My father never even knew.
07:50He'd be walking down the street and the neighbour would say, congratulations, Henry, you have a boy.
07:54Or congratulations, Henry, you have a girl.
07:56He wouldn't even know she was pregnant.
07:59They didn't want to know, I would say.
08:01But you had to have loads of children.
08:03You know, I think every woman around us had 10, 12, 14 children, 8 children.
08:09I said, gee, how did they do?
08:11Then they'd say, there was no radio and there was no television.
08:17I heard it's a no-go here, dear mate.
08:19This is it.
08:20I mean, I'm all my life living in the city and I wouldn't come out in the night.
08:23And I wouldn't come down to Moorstreet in the night.
08:25No way I'd be afraid of my life.
08:26No, definitely not.
08:27It's gone that bad, isn't it?
08:28Yeah, it's horrible.
08:29Shocking.
08:30Stallholders apply to Dublin City Council for licences that allow them to trade on the street, paying an annual fee.
08:36The fish business is gone, you know, and it's the government's fault, really.
08:41I was getting a lot of visits from the HSE and even though I had loads of ice and I
08:47had everything ship-shape,
08:48she said, I'm sorry, she said, but you need to have hot and cold running water and you need to
08:54have an ice-making machine.
08:57Now, let's face it, that was impossible.
09:00I've been asking for that for years and I was promised in 28, 27 years ago in writing that when
09:07the development was done,
09:09we would all have water, electricity, whatever we needed, we would have.
09:14So we'd know, there's no development.
09:16They haven't developed nothing yet.
09:18And now we're on to the third developer.
09:20Hi, Stephens.
09:21Oh, dear.
09:23There was a very successful market.
09:25Every Dubliner used to go into Moor Street for their fruit, their veg, their fish and their meat.
09:30The market was thriving back then.
09:31There was good, reputable businesses.
09:33Moor Street is well-known for a few fireworks being sold here and there,
09:37maybe the odd slave of cigarettes, but, you know, they're harmless people, you know.
09:41I'm not saying it's right, but they're harmless, you know.
09:44You know, what's going on now in the street is just, it's incredible.
09:51The cigarette dealers, they'll run after them and they'll have the fellas,
09:56they're dealing crack in Moor Street and they won't touch them, but they'll go after them.
10:02And I've no problem, and I know I shouldn't be saying this,
10:05but I never had a problem with the cigarette dealers because most of my customers bar off them.
10:09They brought the people into the street.
10:11You know, desperate times, desperate people.
10:14So we had to take the good with the bad.
10:16You know, they were only out trying to earn a living.
10:20And I do miss the street.
10:21I miss the people.
10:26Cup of tea, cup of tea.
10:28Come here, Mary.
10:29Thank God I'm waiting on that tea ages.
10:31I mean, I'm here since half seven.
10:33You're hiding your back.
10:35You're hiding your back.
10:36Myself and Mary are cousins, and their family go back four generations.
10:42There are no bananas today.
10:44No bananas again.
10:46You'd be lost without a banana, Mary.
10:47You have to have bananas.
10:49Mary's nanny, I called her my little nanny.
10:51That was my granny's mum.
10:54So then it was my granny, my ma, and now me.
10:59And likewise with Mary.
11:00Yeah.
11:01Yeah.
11:02Yeah, grandkids.
11:02Yeah.
11:03Ah, that would be lovely.
11:04I'm here selling the flowers now.
11:07It's easy.
11:08Oh, my God.
11:10It's my love.
11:12Flares is hard work.
11:14It's much harder than fruit.
11:18You had a customer there a couple of weeks ago, didn't you?
11:21And we were all dying to know where it was for.
11:23You bought loads of roses.
11:25You bought 101 roses.
11:28And I asked him, I said, what do you for?
11:31I'm going to a post store.
11:33So I hope she said, yeah.
11:35Yeah.
11:41Good afternoon, it is Robbie Kane reporting for Dublin Live.
11:45And today we're down in Moor Street.
11:46Now, Siobhan is over here.
11:47What's it like being a street trader over the last five or ten years
11:50compared to what it was in the 80s, 90s, and the 90s?
11:53It's really changed drastically.
11:55It's not a nice place to be anymore.
11:58I don't actually even like coming to work anymore.
12:00Why?
12:01We're just being robbed.
12:02All our customers are being robbed.
12:04They're afraid to come in.
12:05It's just, yeah.
12:09So this stall was my grandmother's, then my mother's, then my mum passed it on to me,
12:13and I'll pass it on, hopefully, to my daughter there.
12:16Lauren is there as well, with?
12:17Yeah, Lauren's working with me, yeah.
12:19My mum was 20 when she had me.
12:22And start working on the stall from then with my nanny.
12:26My mum brought the customers back.
12:29If you met my mum, you would have known.
12:33Sorry.
12:34The big smile on her face.
12:36Like, she was just such a great person.
12:41Everyone loved to come down just for the chance of her.
12:44Like, she was just so lovely.
13:00Following her tragic death, street trader Siobhan has left behind her daughter Lauren,
13:04who is expecting her first baby, and 16-year-old son Ryan.
13:09Siobhan's death has impacted the whole street.
13:12When a trader passes away, it hits hard, you know.
13:17You're spending, you're probably spending more time in your life working on Moore Street
13:21than you are at home with your own family.
13:24Siobhan, I practically grew up on that street.
13:28These people become part of your work family.
13:30How is everybody, how is your nanny holding up?
13:32Sorry.
13:33Up and down?
13:34Up and down.
13:34Siobhan's children, Lauren and Ryan.
13:36I remember Siobhan being pregnant and then, you know, and they're adults now,
13:40so it's just stuff like that, you know.
13:43They're very, it's a year's blow.
13:46What about you?
13:47Oh, I'm just ready for him to come now.
13:50Ready now?
13:50Little boy, is it?
13:51Little boy.
13:55So it was the tourist day.
14:01The guy, they end up knocking on the door to say that our bag was found on the beach.
14:07We were getting the people just to look around where we already checked
14:11and we were just going to go somewhere else.
14:14Before we even left the car park, I came back and my man was found.
14:24She brought us to Ivy at that time.
14:26God, I remember that.
14:28Do you remember?
14:29Yeah, sorry.
14:29Can I get an extra back?
14:31I love that photo of it.
14:32Yeah, it's a great picture of it.
14:33It's really horror, isn't it?
14:34Yeah.
14:41We just have to remember how lucky we are because there's stories of people
14:47that haven't gotten their love from backs for 15 years longer.
14:51Thank God we've only had to wait three days.
14:55Well, they were the longest three days of my life.
15:03Like when I think of all the memories my mum had, like, it's nice to have the memories, but then
15:12it just dawns on you some days
15:13and it could just put you in a bad humour.
15:18Happy birthday to you.
15:21Happy birthday to you.
15:22But obviously now with Lauren's baby, it does give me something to look forward to.
15:36Siobhan definitely wanted Lauren and Ryan to take over the stall, you know?
15:40She had always spoke to me about it and, you know, she was also very aware how hard it is
15:46to make a living from the stall now
15:48because of the condition of Bourne Street.
15:54So it would be great to see Lauren carrying on the tradition of the family trading there on that stall.
16:17John Troy's son, Bobby, is in the butcher shop for the day to learn the ropes.
16:20OK, so take your time.
16:23Now, so that one has to be on this hand.
16:25So put the glove on this hand.
16:27About to say, if you're getting one of them.
16:28Yeah, from years and years ago.
16:31Right, you're ready.
16:32Come on.
16:36Remember, I told you about the saw pulling it back.
16:38Come on, come on.
16:39Now, push.
16:45Now.
16:46Hi, his family.
16:47Oh, good, yeah.
16:47I can see the young man trading.
16:49That's the young man, yeah.
16:50He's the youngest.
16:52Ah, God bless them.
16:55When he's walking here, I'll be able to sit in the pub in a few years.
16:57Better.
16:58Better.
16:59Better.
16:59Yeah.
17:00We need to trade them.
17:02Yeah.
17:03But in reality, John doesn't see the family business passing to a sixth generation.
17:09I have a young lad, he's 22, and he finished school there four or five years ago, and he
17:16wanted to come in here, didn't he, Steve?
17:18Yeah.
17:18I was giving out to him, saying, I'm not coming in here, this is too hard work, blah, blah,
17:22blah.
17:22I said, you know, it's long days, and you don't get weekends off, and all that type of
17:26stuff.
17:26But this, the trade is changing all the time, and we were lucky we were able to buy our houses
17:32when we were young and stuff like that, but it's pretty hard for them nowadays, and I didn't
17:36want them to have a trade like this, and then the trade die in the next 10 or 15 years,
17:40you
17:40know?
17:41Good man.
17:42Fair play.
17:43You're on the ball this morning, aren't you, now?
17:47We're trying to re-plan our future, you know, and what we're going to do, you know, to earn
17:52a living going forward.
17:54So, it's a worrying time, and we're trying to stay positive for now.
17:59That's from a pig.
18:02Pig.
18:03The ribs.
18:05Everything's from a pig now.
18:06Power chops, power chops, power chops.
18:09That's from a chicken.
18:11You know what I mean?
18:16Could be a chicken pig, you know what I mean?
18:19Do you think it's better than sitting in bed, Bob?
18:22No, sorry.
18:23Sorry.
18:25Well, that's better than now, I suppose.
18:33Tucked away in a corner of a basement mall on Moore Street is a new takeaway venture called
18:37Kitchen Break.
18:38The city centre location is a dream for Nalim, who after a career spent working in five-star
18:44restaurants, is gambling his life savings to make this work.
18:47All the time I want to be an executive chef.
18:51So, that's my dream.
18:52And then I realised I can do more than that.
18:56I see another part.
18:58I want to do my own business.
19:01Sri Lankan cooking is so many techniques.
19:05Still, the world doesn't know.
19:08That's the way I want to start in my small place in Moore Street.
19:14I don't have a sitting, so it's a takeaway joint, like a full truck.
19:22Of course, it's a pressure as a business owner, but end of the day, you stay with your family,
19:28you can see the family, and then you do what you want to do.
19:34It is, I can say, a small place, but I treat like a five-star hotel.
19:41It's Sri Lankan New Year, and Nalim is throwing an official launch party in the tiny space outside his restaurant.
19:47Everybody come in today, 12.30.
19:51I have one and a half hour to display all the dishes, and then I'm ready to go.
20:02Do you get nervous?
20:03Yes.
20:03Yes.
20:05This is a traditional for us, you know.
20:08So everybody knows these days.
20:09If you're not right, they will stay straight away.
20:14I learned, as a chef, you have to be top of the game.
20:19You have to be organized.
20:21You have to be flexible for anything.
20:26If you have the right attitude in the day, you can handle anything.
20:31Okay, paper is almost there.
20:35I'm ready to go now.
20:47I see the Sri Lankan people come to the island.
20:53Most of them are living in Dublin.
20:55So I said this is a good opportunity to start a smaller bit Sri Lankan food.
21:02It is my whole life what I want to do as a Sri Lankan chef.
21:08I want to introduce my culture, my passion, my people to the world.
21:19So this is the traditional oil lamp.
21:24Thanks, Nalim, for organizing such a nice event for us today.
21:28I wish you all a happy interview.
21:31Thank you, Nalim.
21:34Happy!
21:41Hello!
21:42Hello, Mama.
21:44How are you?
21:45I'm good.
21:57I'm good.
21:58I'm good.
21:58It was the most challenging period for me.
22:05Because I'm that type that I'm very active.
22:08I'm a go-go person.
22:10So it was as if somebody held my life for years and I'm not able to progress and move forward.
22:22I want to contribute to the society.
22:24I didn't come here to live off you.
22:26I want to be somebody.
22:29When it eventually came, I was ready to fly.
22:36After leaving the asylum process, Edizemi qualified as a social worker.
22:41As well as her food business, she works part-time with children taken into state care.
22:50She still keeps in touch with some of the children she has supported.
22:53For Adam and sisters Holly and Nicole, the years they spent with Edizemi as their social worker changed their lives.
23:01With children in care, you build attachment with those children because you are working with them a long time.
23:06And for me, it's a good system where children have allocated social worker who knows them, who is able to
23:12manage their cases and be able to help them get into their own potentials in life.
23:22It's nice to catch up.
23:23Yeah.
23:24I'm so happy to see all of you have become women and a gentleman.
23:33Come on.
23:35So how does it feel to be 18?
23:38So what are your plans?
23:40Hoping to go to college in Manute to do community work and youth work.
23:45And then I was hoping to do a Bachelor in Social Work.
23:49Follow like you.
23:50Follow in your footsteps.
23:51I am a people person, so I love that engagement, talking to people, getting to know how people feel.
23:58And I just love to engage and to impact lives.
24:02So that was what drove me to social work.
24:06I know when we first went into care and having someone like you on our side as well, I know
24:11you just were a massive like support part in our journey.
24:14And I think for me, at the time, I asked a question and the question was, what would be the
24:20best thing that would happen to this girl?
24:22When you first came, we were looking for our dad and we hadn't seen him in years.
24:29And I remember saying it to our foster mom and like, oh, we'd like to see our dad again.
24:34But we knew that other people couldn't find him.
24:37And then you'd managed to find them.
24:40And now obviously when you did come, you'd let us know that he was sick.
24:45Like that's a big part that I don't think you understand for us.
24:48You literally did, like you gave us that time with our dad before he passed away.
24:53And we only got to see him for, I think it was like three or four little visits.
25:01We'll just always have that in our hearts because, yeah, it was lovely.
25:04It was just, it was just nice to have.
25:10My sister, how are you?
25:12You want essential love, you want brats?
25:15Tomatoes now, ten for a euro.
25:18You just have to do Irish tomatoes, ten for a euro, right?
25:23Tomatoes now, ten for a euro.
25:28Mangoes and avocados, three for a euro.
25:32Pepper, three, four euro!
25:35That's how to do it.
25:41All summer long we sang a song
25:45And as we strolled at Golden Sand
25:50Two sweethearts
25:52Two lovers
25:54And the summer wind
25:57Now I need a bit of music behind me, but other than that I'd be brilliant, you know what I
26:01mean?
26:02Ah, he's a great worker, old school butcher, you know, it's very hard to get hard working men like Fran
26:07these days, you know, most of the young lads who come in, you know, every time you turn around, they're
26:11on the phone or they're going out, you're turning around, where were you? Oh, I just went out for a
26:16few minutes, you know, like no work ethic in them.
26:19My phone, I don't even know what a phone is, I can barely work a calculator, I don't mind work
26:22a phone.
26:23The only phone numbers I have in it is, right, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, and there's a couple of other boards,
26:30I can't think of them right off hand now, right at the minute, but that's who I have in my
26:33phone.
26:37Troy's butchers has been a family business for over a hundred years now. Since Stephen took the reins with his
26:43brother John, they've had to adapt to new customer tastes in order to stay busy.
26:48He's got a goat, and why we do this is more the multinational customers, particularly mostly all the past couple
26:55of years, the last 20 years maybe, you know, but this is the delicacy between South American customers to South
27:05American customers and stuff like that, you know.
27:09So, yeah, this is what we've got breaking this. We sell three or four days a week, that's what it
27:14is, so.
27:16Do you eat it yourself? No. I haven't tried it, I mean, I've tried anything, but I haven't tried it.
27:22Well, actually, believe it or not, the first time we ever tasted a goat, I got it off a doctor.
27:28He gets a couple of kilos every Saturday or every second week or whatever.
27:32Well, I said to him, what are you doing with that? And he told me, but he said, I'll bring
27:35you in, whatever day you're not going on your dinner, I'll bring you in a bit of goat and try
27:40it in the curry.
27:42I've never actually tasted anything like it. You know, it was just absolutely gorgeous. We sell ox hearts, ox tongues,
27:49and we sell an awful lot of tripe.
27:51Well, that was very popular years ago in Dublin.
27:54Now, as I said, this is the stuff that the customers are eating nowadays, you know. You can't just keep
27:59them with anything, you have a kind around you and then...
28:03Am I a little spinny?
28:04Yeah, let it go, please, yeah. Oh, yeah, brownies, oh, pork, oh, garlic, yeah.
28:10Here we go.
28:11I heard you want your picture with me, do you?
28:14If you want, yeah?
28:15My name is Fran.
28:16Oh, Fran.
28:16I don't know this woman's name.
28:18Messi!
28:19Messi!
28:19Oh, Messi!
28:20You like your football?
28:22I love it!
28:23I get my meat in.
28:26Yeah.
28:27Ma'am.
28:27Hi, Fran.
28:28You've got your bag.
28:29You're a lot of good.
28:30Good on.
28:30Good on.
28:31The Dublin Mary flew on Cailgar, so she is not only pretty, huh?
28:43Under an initiative run by Temple Bar Markets and Dublin City Council, more diverse stalls have recently been introduced to
28:49Moor Street.
28:51Reiki healer and oracle reader Amanda is trying to get her first business off the ground.
28:56This is my stall in Moor Street.
28:57This street is amazing, okay?
29:00Today will be oracle readings, tarot readings, providing some jewellery, handmade crystal jewellery.
29:06We're here every Friday and Saturday and it's to try and bring life back into the street and, you know,
29:10bring a bit of culture and keep it alive, most importantly.
29:15I think Moor Street picked me up. I think Moor Street's toughen me up. I will never in my whole
29:21life forget what Moor Street has done for me.
29:23The street, you know, it's taken me in and given me a chance and made me see value in myself
29:30and the confidence has grown.
29:31It's not 100%, do you know what I mean? But it has grown and it's like taking me in as
29:36a rough time and starting to polish me up.
29:38You know, that's the best way I can put it. It's polishing me up.
29:41So, I'm here. It'll be next Saturday.
29:43Thank you much.
29:44Oh, come on. I'll see you next week. Say these things to me.
29:48Oh, really? Don't worry about it.
29:49Yeah, because I hear you all the time.
29:51And thank you for the awesomeness.
29:52No problem. I love a man who appreciates open.
29:54Thank you much. Bye-bye.
29:55I'll see you later.
29:56My early life was a struggle, definitely a struggle from childhood.
30:01We were put at risk at the hands of a family member and, yeah, there was, you know, as children,
30:07we shouldn't have been.
30:08So, yeah. Yeah. So, it was a cruel. It was a battle. We were in and out of care homes.
30:15We were, um, we didn't have the childhood we should have had. So, yeah.
30:20We had to try and make up for that in life ourselves.
30:26I blocked a lot of it out and the trauma kind of resurfaced then.
30:31It spiralled as I got older. I mean, you name it, addictions, everything.
30:35No, no, no. Like, everything. Um, abusive relationships. Yeah, that's, you know, everything.
30:41So, up to this point, it took to, in around the last, I'd say, couple of years for me to
30:48say no more.
30:51Obviously, I went into my healing journey and I am doing therapy still and a lot of holistic healing and
30:57stuff.
30:57So, it does get easier. I had no plans on a business or anything like that.
31:02But I did want to do something for me that would help heal people because that was my space to
31:07find and heal myself.
31:08I found my niche was art and crystals and, you know, stuff like that.
31:12And that's where I'm happiest. I'm happiest when I'm doing all spiritual things. I feel comfortable.
31:20Yeah, just give it a second. The usual. And five, four, three, two, one. Give it a little.
31:28I think my authority in doing this with people is because I have my testimony. You know, that kind of
31:34way.
31:35So, I feel pain and I can't explain it any better than that because I'm, I'm kind of a really
31:39strong empath.
31:41I feel their pain when they're standing across the table from me. And that's how I know it's time to
31:46help them.
31:47Take it.
31:49Okay.
31:50Ooh, Queen of Fire.
31:52Ooh, yeah. So, Queen of Fire is no bullshit.
31:55I've done a reading of a couple of traders and one particular lady.
31:58Oh, you were right with three things but you were shit with the rest and that's completely okay.
32:02Do you know what I mean? So, I'm still okay with the three things, you know, that way.
32:06So, because everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don't ask anyone to believe in what I do.
32:10It's their choice if they're coming to me.
32:12Come here. I love you to face. You got this. I'm proud of you. Keep going, okay?
32:17Every single person on the street is trying to find their way in life.
32:21Yes, you face trouble, there's drug addicts, there's all sorts, you know, that come at you.
32:26There's always a risk every day in Moor Street. There's stabbings, there's beatings, there's dealings.
32:31But you toughen up to it. So, I think for us anyway, it's either it's going to make you or
32:37it's going to break you.
32:39And for the best part, I can say thankfully it's making us. So, hopefully it continues that way.
32:51It's been two months since Naleem launched his Moor Street business. The daily commute from his home in Wexford and
32:57the pressure of running another takeaway in Wicklow is starting to take its toll.
33:01It is stressful. I'm traveling over two hours in the morning, stay another ten hours in Dublin and go back
33:11per day around four hours, five hours in the road.
33:17The last couple of weeks, I only sleep three, four hours.
33:24The Moor Street have anything. You have your own vegetable, you have meat, you have restaurant, everything in Moor Street.
33:33Yes, I'm in Moor Street Mall in the corner of the shop. But the corner shop, it is one of
33:40gems.
33:40Because it is a small place, but you can do more things.
33:49Positive thing happening at the moment. So, management gave me two sit-in. So, they're good for me at the
33:58moment.
33:59So, I hope my business will be increased. Of course, this is a loading bay. We cannot ask more tables,
34:11you know.
34:13Even though it's been a relentless pace for Naleem, business so far has been slow.
34:19He's hoping that some flyers might help to get the word out.
34:24The Sri Lankan restaurant in Moor Street.
34:27They're in the mall?
34:28No, they're in the mall, yeah.
34:29Yeah.
34:30Beautiful food. It's the first time in Ireland.
34:33And then, you have a variety of Sri Lankan food.
34:40And then, Kota is a street food. That's very famous in Sri Lanka.
34:45And then, we have the canopy.
34:47At the moment, I gave everything to this. I had two houses. I put everything in. I sell. I put
34:57it into the business.
34:59I lose so much money at the moment. But I know, I know it will be a success.
35:06Because the people's feedback come in. That's my... I can be strong every day.
35:18My son, he's working at the moment. He's the one looking out of the house. He's paid the rent and
35:25everything.
35:26They're all supporting me to become a success, you know.
35:29I have a good wife. Without Tarika, I'm not here. She's a civilian woman.
35:35She always encouraged me. She said to me, Nalim, your time is coming now.
35:41So, it's coming. It's coming.
35:46Yeah, it's a very hard, hard time we have. Last, last two, three years.
35:55I just want to make good food to new people. But as a business, it's something different.
36:24Me and Philomena, we like to dine together.
36:27But we're having sausages and pudding today that was done in the air fryer. So, we're healthy.
36:37We have to depend on the shops there. And they're obliging. We bring it in and they'll hear.
36:46It's lovely.
36:52Would you like to sign our petition? Help save Moor Street from demolition.
36:57Would you like to sign our petition? Thank you.
37:02Thank you very much. Thank you.
37:04We're trying to save the street and the market because the cars that be want to destroy it.
37:09So, we won't let them. And you won't because you're all signing. Thank you.
37:14I've been doing this for ten years. Ten years ago, I was walking down Moor Street and saw the campaign.
37:20I said, oh, this is right down my alley. I'll go and sit there every week.
37:24Thank you very much.
37:25So, it's part of our living history.
37:29Bronagh has a personal reason to campaign. Her grand uncle, Harry Boland, was one of those hold up in 14
37:36to 17 Moor Street, the location of the end of the Easter Rising on April 29th, 1916.
37:43The red shuttered buildings are now owned by the state and there are plans afoot for a commemorative centre.
37:49But Bronagh is petitioning to preserve the rest of the street because of its historical importance.
37:56Repair and care of the whole terrace is very important because they started at the first house and came out
38:02of the last house.
38:03And why would you just preserve four in the middle? Do you know what I mean? Why not preserve the
38:09whole terrace?
38:13Granda and Harry went to Richmond barracks. They were arrested and brought there.
38:20He never mentioned anything about 1916. A lot of them didn't.
38:24But I heard stories then through my aunts. They would tell me bits and pieces about who helped, who didn't
38:30help, whatever.
38:32I'll be saying this.
38:33Yes, thank you very much.
38:34I'm on your Facebook page.
38:35Oh, very good.
38:38My dream is for all the houses to be repaired and people being allowed to go through to see exactly
38:48where they tunneled through.
38:52I'd love to see inside the buildings and I'd love to bring my grandchildren with me and say, this is
38:57where your great great grand uncle went through.
39:02Maybe you'd know more about that than I would.
39:05No, she's talking about the rising.
39:07Yeah, well, you'd know more than that.
39:08No, I wouldn't really.
39:09No.
39:10I wasn't even born.
39:12Well, you know.
39:13Are you for real, you weren't born?
39:14Ah, jeez, are you listening to this?
39:16Yeah, no, it's just stories we were told.
39:19My granny used to tell us stories all about that.
39:22We'd just listen to the stories.
39:24And then Mary's dad was shot in the air.
39:28Yeah, really.
39:29Grandfather.
39:29Oh, yeah, grandfather, yeah.
39:30Oh, jeez.
39:31My granny told us he was shot in the air and all I could see was these big cauliflower ears.
39:35How in the name of God can you shoot somebody in the air?
39:38Lovely pair of ears.
39:48Not far from Moore Street, Reiki healer Amanda is renovating a space in her flat that will become her own
39:54treatment room.
39:55She has big plans and is awaiting news from her local enterprise office about possible business funding.
40:01The wobble of these is deadly.
40:03I've got muscles I never thought I'd have.
40:05By November, I'm hoping to have my therapy room opened up.
40:09Where I will be providing sessions of healing with Reiki.
40:13And the happiest part of my day is when I see the original wood creaking through.
40:17Because I've spent hours doing this.
40:19So when I see that, how sad is that?
40:23So I know I'm not stupid what's ahead of me.
40:25But there's no room for failure and I'm not going to.
40:28No.
40:29No.
40:29Right now, no risks.
40:31Hard work.
40:32A lot of hard work.
40:33So, burnout is probably my only risk.
40:35But I'm okay with that.
40:37I have a plan and yeah, November it will be the launch hopefully.
40:42Fingers going crossed.
40:44This is going to be the therapy room.
40:46I absolutely love it.
40:48And we're not going to be putting the floors in till last.
40:51As you can see, everything that's going on, it would be pointless to me putting floors in right now.
40:55And then here we're going to have, side the salt lamp.
41:00So just picture it with me.
41:01Visualise guys.
41:02It's the best way to manifest.
41:03So this is, we're going to have a small table with three layers and some plants here.
41:08And a very large salt lamp.
41:10Over here it's going a very large palm plant.
41:13Real.
41:13All real.
41:14Then a little desk.
41:16The Reiki.
41:17And simple.
41:17That's it.
41:18Be thriving within a year.
41:20Have maybe a shop opened up within two years.
41:23Within three years then hopefully be able to travel and hire more staff.
41:27Next year I really want to have at least another member staff.
41:30Who's on a journey like me?
41:33Now originally I hadn't heard anything from the Enterprise House.
41:36And I thought, you know what, I have to just go ahead with it anyway.
41:39Because this was my plan.
41:41This was what I was going to do.
41:42And I thought, okay, maybe it wasn't meant to happen.
41:44I just got an email today from the Enterprise House.
41:48And I am with them on Friday.
41:51Everything in my whole life, even up to a couple of years ago,
41:54I never thought about standing in this spot.
41:57But if you have been through hell and you've managed to heal,
42:01then your calling is to be a light worker.
42:04To be a healer.
42:04To show people how to do it.
42:06Because that's all people want.
42:07They want to know how to heal.
42:08They want to know that there's hope.
42:11If I hadn't been in Moore Street,
42:13I don't think I'd be standing here and getting ready to open my business.
42:17And I'm not saying possibly.
42:19I'm saying getting ready to open my business.
42:22So, yeah.
42:23To me it's spiritual.
42:24Everyone's spiritual in a sense.
42:25But it did that.
42:27And the street did that.
42:28And if you can survive that then, yeah.
42:31Yeah.
42:31Build your empire.
42:32Do you know?
42:45It is now just five months since Nalim launched his restaurant in the Moore Street Mall.
42:52Unfortunately, despite all the hard work and the sacrifices he has made, his dream is over.
42:58So, we are close in Dublin branch.
43:03So sad.
43:06So many friends.
43:09So many customers.
43:11New customers.
43:13All the Sri Lankan community helped me to do this.
43:22I'm in the corner shop.
43:24People don't know where I am, what I'm doing.
43:30Football has to be there.
43:31Location has to be there.
43:34Costing.
43:34How much you put the fuel to come every day.
43:37And then what effort you put in.
43:44You're doing your own business.
43:47It is very, very difficult.
43:52So, I'm still learning point.
43:57I don't know how other people did.
43:59I don't know when I can achieve that target.
44:03It is a long process to success as a businessman.
44:09Last order.
44:14Never give up.
44:16The cooking is my life, you know.
44:31The lot of.
44:48The vulnerabilities of the notaze LAURA he's wapped.eneneneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneeneene.
44:57Siobhan is over here. She has one of the stalls. Siobhan, how's it going? Happy Tuesday.
45:02Good to see you.
45:03Happy Tuesday. How are you?
45:04How was your bank holiday weekend, first of all?
45:06Oh, it was lovely. Nice and relaxing.
45:12Right. About ten minutes. Yeah.
45:21Hello. The funeral is passing in ten minutes. If you pull your shirt on, yeah?
45:30Hello. You know the funeral is passing through, yes?
45:33Yes, yes, yes.
45:33It's coming in about ten minutes. If you just pull your shirt on while it passes, boy, just for respect.
45:37No worries. That's fine.
45:38It's the tradition on the street, good man?
45:40All right.
45:40So you're here every day from what time?
45:42From Monday to Friday from eight in the morning till six in the evening.
45:46Long old days, Siobhan, I have to say.
45:48From a graft, what can I say, Robbie?
45:50Well, the graft, you always have me.
46:52Just seeing everyone, I basically grew up around all on the street clapping for my
46:58mom. It's like, it's like my mom's still there. If you get me, like she's there in the car
47:04with me and we're driving down and everyone's saying hello.
47:20One thing I wanted to do was give me mom the best send-off we could give her. And I
47:26think
47:26we don't know. I think we made her.
48:22I think it's very important to remind yourself things could get a little bit messy.
48:27Holy hell. I was jealous.
48:29That's my boy. I should look like that, not him.
48:32Pierce going to the window, looking out, seeing dead bodies on the street.
48:35Some people go for American dream, so I have my Irish dream. I love it.
48:40Let's do it.
48:42Well, I felt good.
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