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00:01Two pounder chops, no, for 50 pounds.
00:03It's a match, 10, 3 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.
00:15I want to contribute to the society.
00:18Don't be woodying, just spend, spend, spend.
00:20This 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 gonna make you, or it's gonna break you.
00:37Smoke!
00:53Da?
00:54Yeah?
00:54Sorry for you.
00:56Uh, a little bit more.
00:58Throw it out a little bit more.
01:04Come on, Pippi.
01:07Come on.
01:11Put your doll down.
01:15Put your doll down, Pippi.
01:16What?
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.
01:26Yeah, it's what we have to do every day.
01:28Yeah.
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.
01:38Hi!
01:39ep be with a dolly sitting there.
02:08I'm doing some more than a dolly blog.
02:08So if you don't know what you're going to do now, if you're really tall, do you know what you're
02:08thinking?
02:08There's a bit of a dollar.
02:09The rest of them are butchers, all of them.
02:12But we're the only two left here.
02:14He's a great butcher, master butcher, better than me.
02:17He's the backbone on the brands.
02:27You can't go wrong when you come to the military.
02:29The biggest supermarket in Europe.
02:31My uncle Christy would be well known.
02:33He's in a lot of videos over the years,
02:35including the RT archives for shouting out the prices at the door.
02:38Mince people, 50 pence.
02:40A pound of lamb delivered for 20 pence.
02:42He'd be shouting out, you know, three pound of rib mints for 180.
02:46There's five large Dolly Parton's there for 8.99.
02:49Stuff like that.
02:51I have to ask, what's a Dolly Parton?
02:53Chicken breasts.
02:56Markedlaw whitenin' their nice rare cod.
02:59So, this is May Gorman.
03:02And 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.
03:14All the street traders.
03:15And they elect, you know, a queen of Moorstreet.
03:18It's normally somebody who has devoted their lives to trading on Moorstreet.
03:23We had Rosie Johnson.
03:25We had May Gorman.
03:26With Carmel Mooney.
03:27She was our last queen.
03:29She 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.
03:45Not everyone on Moorstreet comes from generations of family traders.
03:51There are plenty of new faces here, like Edizemi, known as Mamashi, serving more exotic fare.
03:58We have jollof rice, spicy green chicken, and beef in the sauce.
04:05And then plantain.
04:07The others, the sizzling is not there, but hers is, it hits the spot enough.
04:14Mamashi is the mummy, the mother of all African community youth.
04:20Because, yeah, we bring the taste of Africa, we bring the taste of Nigeria.
04:25So 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.
04:39I get to see different people from different nationalities.
04:45I see more of my own community as well.
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 more street.
05:26She's on the street.
05:27I'm finding out that my grandmother is here.
05:29Your grandmother, oh, yeah, wow.
05:32Yeah, it's a small wall, isn't it?
05:34I stay too long in the bathroom.
05:36Yeah, yeah.
05:38That's where she had to call her from.
05:40Yeah.
05:41It's still dark, yeah.
05:43I would equally exchange food.
05:46So sometimes they'll say, oh, mama, don't worry.
05:49Just 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 around there behind.
06:03At the corner there is mama.
06:04You 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.
06:16Yes.
06:17Yeah.
06:17Everybody come to Moorstreet.
06:19If you want to get anything, just come to Moorstreet.
06:27Now, May is an icon of Moorstreet traders and traders all over the world.
06:32Because you look like 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.
06:40It's killing us.
06:42I can honestly tell you that.
06:50I'll have a look.
06:50There 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 A Garmin was beside me.
07:10And I know they took this all away because of the antisocial behaviour, you know.
07:15So if I was coming back tomorrow or the next day, they might take it back out for me.
07:19But there's nothing to come out for.
07:21The street is dead.
07:22You know, this part of me will always be in the street.
07:25And 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.
07:33You look very well.
07:35Oh, thanks.
07:35You 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 neighbours say,
07:52Congratulations, 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 it?
08:10But then they'd say, there was no radio and there was no television.
08:17I heard it's a no-go radio made.
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 Moorstery 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.
08:29Shopping.
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.
08:38You know, and it's the government's fault, really.
08:41I was getting a lot of business from the HSE.
08:45And even though I had loads of ice and I had everything ship shape,
08:48she said, I'm sorry, she said, but you need to have hot and cold running water.
08:53And you need to have 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, we would all have water, electricity, whatever we needed, we would have.
09:14We said, no, there's no development.
09:16They haven't developed nothing yet.
09:18And now we're on to the third developer.
09:19Hi, Stephens.
09:21Hi.
09:22Oh, 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, maybe the odd slave of cigarettes.
09:39But, you know, they're harmless people, you know.
09:41I'm not saying it's right, but they're harmless, you know.
09:44What's going on now in this street is just, it's incredible.
09:51The cigarette dealers, they'll run after them and they'll have the fellas, they're dealing crack in Moor Street.
09:58And 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, but I never had a problem with the
10:06cigarette dealers,
10:07because most of my customers bought off them.
10:09They brought the people into the street.
10:11You know, desperate times, desperate people.
10:13So we had to take the, 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, I miss, I miss the people.
10:26Cup of tea, cup of tea.
10:28Come here Mary, thank God I'm waiting on that tea ages.
10:31I mean, I'm here since half seven.
10:33You're adding your back.
10:35You're adding your back.
10:37Myself and Mary are cousins, and their family go back four generations.
10:42Is there no bananas today?
10:44No bananas again.
10:46You could be lost without a banana Mary, you have to have bananas.
10:49Mary's nanny, I called her my little nanny.
10:52That was me granny's mum.
10:54So then it was me granny, me ma, and now me.
10:58And likewise with Mary.
11:00Yeah.
11:01Yeah.
11:01Yeah, grandkids.
11:02Yeah.
11:04I'm here selling the flowers now.
11:07It's easy.
11:08Oh my God.
11:10It's my love.
11:12Flowers is hard work.
11:14It's much harder than fruit.
11:15It's true.
11:18You had a customer there a couple of weeks ago, didn't you?
11:21And we were all down to know where it was for.
11:23He bought loads of roses.
11:25He bought 101 roses.
11:28And I asked him, I said, what he for?
11:31I'm going to a pole store.
11:33So I hope she said yeah.
11:41Good afternoon to you.
11:42It is Robbie Kane reporting for Dublin Live.
11:44And today we're down in Myr Street.
11:46Now Siobhan is over here.
11:47What's it like being a street trader over the last five or ten years compared to what
11:51it was in the eighties, nineties and the noughties?
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.
11:59Why?
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.
12:11Then my mother's.
12:12Then 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 walking with me.
12:19My mum was 20 when she had me.
12:22And started 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 where, like, she was just so lovely.
13:00Following her tragic death, street trader Siobhan has left behind her daughter Lauren, who is expecting her first baby and
13:0616-year-old son Ryan.
13:08Good.
13:08How are you doing?
13:09Siobhan's death has impacted the whole street.
13:12When a trader passes away, it hits hard.
13:16You know, you're spending, you're probably spending more time in your life working on Moore Street than you are at
13:22home with your own family.
13:24Siobhan, I practically grew up on that street.
13:28These people become part of your work family.
13:30How was everybody?
13:31How was your nanny holding up?
13:32Sorry.
13:33Up 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, and they're very, it's a huge blow.
13:46What about you?
13:47Oh, I'm just ready for him to come now.
13:49Ready now.
13:50Little boy, is he?
13:51Little boy.
13:55So, it was the touristy.
14:01The guy, they end up knocking on the door to say that her bag was found on the beach.
14:07We were getting the people just to look around where we already checked and we were just going to go
14:13somewhere 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, yeah.
14:30I love that photo of her.
14:32Yeah, it's a great picture of her. It's really horror, isn't it?
14:41We just have to remember how lucky we are.
14:44Because there's stories of people that haven't gotten their loved one back for 15 years longer.
14:51Thank God we 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 and it could just put you in a bad humour.
15:18Happy birthday to you.
15:20Happy birthday to you.
15:22Happy birthday to you.
15:22Happy birthday to you.
15:22But obviously now with Lauren's baby, it does give me something to look forward to.
15:28What?
15:31What do you think?
15:33What do you think?
15:34What do you think?
15:35What do you think?
15:35What do you think?
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 because of the condition of Mourne Street.
15:54So, it would be great to see Lauren carrying on the tradition of the family trading there on that stall.
16:09So, you have to start with which hand?
16:12Just my hand.
16:13Do you use?
16:13I'll just check on it.
16:15Yeah.
16:15I'll just check, yeah.
16:16John Troy's son, Bobby, is in the butcher shop for the day to learn the ropes.
16:20OK.
16:20So, take your time.
16:23Now, that one has to be on this hand then.
16:25So, put the glove on this hand.
16:27About to save you getting one of them.
16:28Yeah.
16:29From years and years ago.
16:31Are you ready?
16:32Come on.
16:36Remember I told you about the stall pulling it back.
16:38Come on.
16:39Now, push.
16:44Now.
16:45How is family?
16:47Oh, good, yeah.
16:47I can see the young man training.
16:49That's the young man, yeah.
16:49Training.
16:50He's the youngest.
16:52Ah, God bless them.
16:54When he's walking here, I'll be out of the pub in a few years.
16:57Better.
16:58Better for him.
17:00We need to train them.
17:02Yes.
17:03But in reality, John doesn't see the family business passing to a sixth generation.
17:09I have a young lad.
17:10He's 22.
17:12And he finished school there four or five years ago.
17:16And he wanted to come in here, didn't he, Steve?
17:18Yeah.
17:18I was giving out to him saying, I'm not coming in here.
17:20This is too hard work, blah, blah, blah.
17:23It's long days and you don't get weekends off and all that type of stuff.
17:27The trade is changing all the time.
17:30And we were lucky.
17:31We were able to buy our houses when we were young and stuff like that.
17:34But it's pretty hard for them nowadays.
17:35And I didn't want them to have a trade like this and then the trade die in the next 10
17:39or 15 years, you know?
17:41Good man.
17:42Fair play.
17:43You're on the ball this morning, aren't you?
17:47We're trying to re-plan our future, you know, and what we're going to do, you know,
17:52to earn a 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.
18:06Polk chops, polk chops, polk 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?
18:22Oh, sorry.
18:23Sorry.
18:25Well, that's better than now, we 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.
19:06It's still the world doesn't know.
19:09That's why 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 lunch party in the tiny space outside his restaurant.
19:48Everybody 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.
20:04This is traditional for us, you know.
20:07So 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.
20:33Favor is almost there.
20:35I'm ready to go now.
20:38Bye.
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 smaller with 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.
21:23Thanks, Nalim, for organizing such a nice event for us today.
21:28I wish you all a happy India.
21:31Thank you, Nalim.
21:34Happy!
21:41Hello.
21:43Hello, Mama.
21:44How are you?
21:45I'm good.
21:46Hello.
21:46Edizemi, known as Mama She, runs a food stall on Moor Street.
21:49While Ireland is home for her now, it was very different when she arrived as an asylum seeker
21:5420 years ago.
21:55The waiting period before I got my residency 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 the hope, you know, it was as if somebody held my life for years and I'm not able to
22:19progress and move forward.
22:22I want to contribute to the society.
22:25I 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.
22:40As 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 for them a long time.
23:07And for me, it's a good system where children have allocated social worker who knows them, who is able to
23:12manage, you know, their cases and, you know, be able to help them get into their own potentials in life.
23:21It'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?
23:39Hoping to go to college in Manukes to do community work at Utah.
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 was, I asked the question and the question was, what would be
24:20the best thing that would happen to these girls?
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 manage 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.
24:50Like, you gave us that time with our dad before he passed away.
24:54And 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 nice to have.
25:10My sister, how are you?
25:12You want essential love, you want plants?
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.
25:27Mangoes and avocados, three for a euro.
25:32Pepper, three for a 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
25:59But other than that I'd be brilliant, you know what I mean?
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, they're going out, you're turning around, where were you?
26:15Oh, I just went out for a few minutes, you know, like, no work ethic in them.
26:19Phone, I don't even know what a phone is, I can barely work a calculator, I don't mind work a
26:22phone.
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 offhand now, right at the minute, but that's how I have in my phone.
26:37Troy's Butchers has been a family business for over a hundred years now.
26:41Since Stephen took the reins with his brother John, they've had to adapt to new customer tastes in order to
26:46stay busy.
26:50And what we do this is, more of the multinational customers, particularly on one feet all the past couple of
26:56years, that'll last 20 years maybe, you know, but this is the delicacy between South American customers and stuff like
27:06that, you know.
27:08So, yeah, this is really about breaking this.
27:11We sell to you four days a week, that's why, so.
27:16Do you eat it yourself?
27:18No.
27:18I haven't tried it, and I've tried anything, but I haven't tried it.
27:22I actually, I, believe it or not, the first time I ever tasted a goat, I, I got it off
27:27a doctor.
27:28He gets a couple of kilos every Saturday or every second week or whatever.
27:32But I said to him, what are you doing with that? And he told me.
27:34But he said, I'll bring you in, whatever day you're not going on your dinner, I'll bring you in a
27:38bit of goat and try it in the curry.
27:41I've never actually tasted anything like it. You know, it was just, it was absolutely gorgeous.
27:46We sell ox hearts, ox tongues, and 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.
27:58You can't just keep them with nice, you have your kind around, you know.
28:03Am I a little spinny?
28:04Yeah.
28:05Yeah.
28:06Oh, yeah, brownie, oh, pork, oh, garlic, yeah.
28:10Ooh, duck.
28:10Check it out.
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.
28:20Are you going to football?
28:22Hahaha!
28:24Hold on, I'll get my meat in.
28:26Yeah.
28:27Come on.
28:27Hi, I'm Fran.
28:28I'm going to get her.
28:29Good morning, Fran.
28:30Good morning, Fran.
28:31Good morning, Fran.
28:32The Dublin Mary flew on Kellgaard, so she is not only pretty, huh.
28:43Under an initiative run by Temple Bar Markets and Dublin City Council, more diverse stalls
28:48have recently been introduced to Moor Street. Reiki healer and oracle reader Amanda is trying
28:53to get her first business off the ground. This is my stall on Moor Street. This street
28:58is amazing, okay. Today will be oracle readings, taro readings, providing some jewellery, handmade
29:04crystal jewellery. We're here every Friday and Saturday and it's to try and bring life
29:09back into the street and, you know, bring a bit of culture and keep it alive, most importantly.
29:15I think Moor Street picked me. I think Moor Street's toughen me up. I will never in my whole life
29:22forget what Moor Street has done for me. The street, you know, it's taken me in and given
29:26me a chance and made me see value in myself and the confidence has grown. It's not 100%,
29:32you know what I mean? But it has grown and it's like taking me in as a rough time and
29:36starting to polish me up. You 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.
29:45Oh, go on. I'll see you next week. Say these things to me.
29:48Oh, really?
29:48Yeah. It's hurting all the time.
29:51Thank you for the awesome news.
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. We were put at risk
30:02at the hands of a family member. And yeah, there was, you know, as children, we shouldn't
30:08have been. So yeah. Yeah. So it was a cruel. It was a battle. We were in and out of
30:14care
30:14homes. We were, um, we didn't have the childhood we should have had. So yeah, we had to try and
30:21make up for that in life ourselves.
30:26I blocked a lot of it out and the trauma kind of resurfaced then. It spiralled as I got older.
30:33I mean, you name it, addictions, everything. No, no, no. Like everything. Um, abusive relationships.
30:39Yeah, yeah. That's, you know, everything. So up to this point, it took to, in around the
30:45last, I'd say, couple of years for me to say no more.
30:51Obviously, I went into my healing journey and I am doing therapy still and a lot of holistic
30:56healing and stuff. So it does get easier. I had no plans on a business or anything like
31:01that, but I did want to do something for me that would help heal people because that was
31:06my space to find and heal myself. I found my niche was art and crystals and, you know,
31:11stuff like that. And that's where I'm happiest. I'm happiest when I'm doing all spiritual things.
31:16I feel comfortable.
31:19Yeah. Just give it a second, the usual. And five, four, three, two, one. Give it a little
31:28little.
31:28I think my authority in doing this with people is because I have my testimony, you know,
31:34that kind of way. So I feel pain and I can't explain it any better than that because I'm
31:39kind of a really strong empath. I feel the pain when they're standing across the table from
31:44me. And that's how I know it's time to help them. Take it.
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. Oh, you were right
31:59with three things, but you were shit with the rest and that's completely okay. Do you know
32:02what I mean? So I'm still okay with the three things, you know, that way. So because everyone
32:07is entitled to their opinion. I don't ask anyone to believe in what I do. It's their choice
32:11if they're coming to me.
32:12Come here. I love you to base. 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. Yes, you face trouble.
32:23There's drug addicts. There's all sorts, you know, that come at you. There's always a
32:27risk every day in Moore 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
32:36or it's going to break you. And for the best part of us, I can say thankfully it's making
32:42us. So hopefully it continues that way.
32:51It's been two months since Naleem launched his Moore Street business. The daily commute from
32:55his home in Wexford and the pressure of running another takeaway in Wicklow is starting
33:00to take its toll. It is stressful. I'm traveling over two hours in the morning, stay another
33:0910 hours in Dublin and go back per day around four hours, five hours in the road. The last
33:18couple of weeks, I only sleep three, four hours. The Moore Street have anything. You have your own
33:27vegetable, you have meat, you have restaurant, everything in Moore Street. Yes, I'm in Moore Street
33:34mall in the corner of the shop. But the corner shop, it is one of gem because it is a
33:42small
33:42place, but you can do more things.
33:49Positive thing happening at the moment. So management gave me two sit-ins. So they're good for me at the
33:58moment. So I hope that my business will be increased. Of course, this is a loading bay. We cannot ask
34:10more
34:10table, you know. Even though it's been a relentless pace for Naleem, business so
34:17far has been slow. He's hoping that some flyers might help to get the word out.
34:24The Sri Lankan restaurant in Moore Street. There in the mall? No, there in the mall, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
34:30Beautiful food. It's the first time in Ireland. And then you have a variety of Sri Lankan food.
34:40And then Khotu is the street food. That's very famous in Sri Lanka. And then we have the canopy. At
34:48the moment, I gave
34:49everything to this. I had two houses. I put everything in, I sell, I put it into the business. I
34:59lose so
35:00much money at the moment. But I know, I know it will be a success because the people feedback come
35:09in. That's
35:10the money. I can, I can be strong every day. My son, he working at the moment. He's the one
35:23looking
35:23out of the house. He paid the rent and everything. They're all supporting me to become a success,
35:28you know. I have a good wife. Without Tarika, I'm not here. She's, she's brilliant woman. She
35:35always encouraged me. She said to me, Nadim, your time is coming now. So, it's, 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 you people. But as a business, it's something different.
36:24Me and Philomena, we like to dine together. Well, we're having sausages and
36:30we've got 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.
36:51Would you like to sign our petition, help save Moor Street from demolition?
36:57Would you like to sign our petition? Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
37:04We're trying to save the street and the market because the powers 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 10 years. 10 years ago, I was walking down Moor Street and saw the campaign.
37:19I 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.
38:31Will we sign this? Yes, thank you very much. I'm on your Facebook page. Oh, 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-granduncle went through.
39:02Mary, 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. No. I wasn't even born.
39:12Well, you know, are you for real you weren't born?
39:14Oh, 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 just listened to the stories.
39:24And then Mary's dad was shot in the air.
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?
40:22So 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.
40:31A lot of hard work.
40:33So.
40:33Burnout 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.
40:55Then 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 and a very
41:09large salt lamp.
41:10Over here is 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 who's on a journey like me.
41:33Now originally I hadn't heard anything from the Enterprise House and I thought, you know what, I have to just
41:38go ahead with it anyway because this was my plan.
41:40This 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 and I am with them on Friday.
41:51Everything in my whole life, even up to a couple of years ago, I never thought I'd stand in this
41:56spot.
41:57But if you have been through hell and you've managed to heal, then your calling is to be a light
42:03worker, to be a healer, to 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, I don't think I'd be standing here and getting ready to open my
42:17business.
42:17And I'm not saying possibly, I'm saying getting ready to open my business.
42:21So, yeah, to me it's spiritual, everyone's spiritual in a sense, but it did that.
42:27And the street did that and if you can survive that then, yeah, yeah, build your empire, do 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, so sad.
43:06So many friends, so many customers, new customers, all 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.
43:29Football had to be there.
43:31Location had to be there.
43:33Costing, how much you put the fuel to come every day.
43:37And then what effort you put in.
43:44You're doing your own business.
43:46It is very, very difficult.
43:53So, I'm still learning point.
43:57I don't know how other people did.
43:58I 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.
44:17I will have to try two kids...
44:18One, two.
44:20One, one, two.
44:20One, two.
44:22keywords.
44:31Bye.
44:32One, two.
44:32All the ladies look.
44:40The meat...
44:45One, two.
44:47A Brit double.
44:47.
44:57Siobhan is over here. She has one of the stalls. Siobhan, how's it going? Happy Tuesday. Good to see you.
45:03Happy Tuesday. How are you? How was your bank holiday weekend first of all?
45:06It was lovely. Nice and relaxing.
45:12Frank, about 10 minutes, yeah? Hello. The funeral is passing in 10 minutes.
45:24If you pull your shirt off, yeah? Thank you.
45:30Hello. You know the funeral is passing through, yes? Yes, yes, yes.
45:33It's coming in about 10 minutes. If you just pull your shirt off while it passes, boy, just for respect.
45:37Lord. Okay, 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 8 in the morning till 6 in the evening.
45:46Long old days, Siobhan, I have to say.
45:48I'm a Graf, though, what can I say, Robbie?
45:50You're out of Graf, you always have me.
45:54Don't close me.
45:55Come on.
45:56What?
45:58You have to say.ренsey,
46:04Alan, you... You'd be
46:08good to see there. You have to
46:21goしま these days later, give me all the time to move.
46:52Just seeing everyone that I basically grew up
46:55around all on the street clapping for my mom it's like it's like my mom's still there if you get
47:03me
47:03like she's there in the car with 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
47:25her and I think we don't know I think we made her
47:28and I think we'll be right back.
48:21I think it's very important to remind yourself things could get a little bit messy.
48:26Holy hell.
48:28I was jealous.
48:29What's my boy?
48:30I should look like that not him.
48:31Pierce 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.
48:40I love it.
48:40I love it.
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