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Double Take: The estate in Coolock named after the 1969 moon landing


The deadly Where's Me Jumper? tribute outside Bishop Lucey Park in Cork

Double Take: The technicolour rock at the centre of the Waterford-Kilkenny rivalry

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Mount Misery’s rockface is blue and white one day, black and amber the next.

Have you heard about the hungry tree in Dublin 7?

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It’s been gobbling a bench for the last eighty years.

Double Take: The gory Limerick mural with a nod to Hello Kitty

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It’s an eye-popping design… and we really do mean ‘eye-popping’.

Double Take: The Irish Hollywood in the Wicklow Gap

Double Take: The VERY DARK CAVES sign from Father Ted

Double Take: The Waterford town that's splitting the atom

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Take a stroll through Dungarvan and you’ll spot some intriguing carvings outside the shops on Grattan Square.

Double Take: What's with the burning building logo all over Dublin city centre?

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You’ll spot them on lampposts all over the city.

DO NOT USE Double Take: The larger-than-life honey bee hidden away in Co Kerry

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The mural was painted by artist Lorraine McDonnell in 2016.

Double Take: The larger-than-life honey bee on a Co Kerry street

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The mural was painted by artist Lorraine McDonnell in 2016.

Double Take: The tribute to a failed Spanish general on Cork's Cornmarket St

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Don Juan de Aquila is also the ‘Spaniard’ who inspired the famous Kinsale pub.

Have you spotted the forgotten Penny Dreadful signage on this Dublin side street?

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Take a wander through Dame Court and you’ll spot a piece of Victorian London.

Double Take: Spot the Rory Gallagher tribute outside this Donegal nursing home

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Rock Hospital by name… and by nature.

Double Take: The fairy village tucked behind a West Cork café

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Stop in at Ger’s Wild Atlantic Diner for a cup of tea and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by what else you find there.

Double Take: The gigantic 3D squirrel beside Tara Street station

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Look up on your way to the Dart and you’ll spot this spectacular squirrel.

Double Take: St Valentine's heart in a box in a Dublin church

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St Valentine’s heart will go on.

Double Take: The plaque in Rathmines celebrating telescope maker Howard Grubb

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In plain sight on Observatory Lane.

Double Take: The striking Corporation flats designed by Herbert G Simms

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The buildings that shape Dublin’s city centre.

Double Take: The bronze bust celebrating a 19th-century Bengali poet in Stephen's Green

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Rabindranath Tagore enjoys the city centre greenery.

Double Take: The street in a Sligo town mysteriously named after Buenos Aires

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Don’t cry for Strandhill, Argentina.

Double Take: The Bride St plaques featuring stories of life in Dublin 8

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Quotes, stories and jokes from inner-city residents, all cast in bronze.

Double Take: The Leeside house that inspired a world-famous mathematician

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George Boole produced some of his most famous work at 5 Grenville Place.

Double Take: The kitchen chair and teddy bear sitting on top of a Wicklow mountain

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The chair, cast in bronze, looks out over the fields below.

Double Take: The bronze statue of Charlie Chaplin standing alone in a Kerry village

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The Tramp’s go-to getaway in Ireland.

Double Take: The windowless landmark on Dublin's College Green

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No room with a view from Bank of Ireland’s headquarters.

Double Take: Have you walked down Murdering Lane in Dublin ?

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A horrible history of this unassuming alleyway in Dublin 8.

Double Take: The shipwreck on Inis Oirr that stars in Father Ted

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The story of MV Plassy, the steam trawler enjoying island life.

Double Take: The bizarre 140ft-high monument towering over a park in Kildare

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Conolly’s Folly has been there for more than 250 years.

Double Take: The stone seat in the Phoenix Park that's actually an ancient tomb

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Head through the Chapelizod gate to find one of Dublin city’s oldest monuments.

Double Take: The mysterious African rhino that appeared overnight in a Dublin river

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The life-size statue can be found in the River Dodder.

Double Take: The Dublin 7 church with a crypt full of mummies down below

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Meet the ‘Big Four’ at one of Dublin city’s more macabre landmarks, St Michan’s Church.

Double Take: The creepy Waterford structure that was once Ireland's longest bridge

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The Old Red Iron Bridge was a central part of Ireland’s transport network in the early 1900s.

Double Take: The eerie swamp statue found in a little-known Wicklow park

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Meet the zombie-like granite figure that resides in a park designed for meditation.

Double Take: The drinking fountain for cows in Dublin 7

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Haymarket Square was once the home of a thriving livestock market.

Double Take: The full-size, 50-feet-tall concrete replica of the Lourdes grotto in Dublin 8

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The religious shrine found in an urban neighbourhood.

Double Take: The fairy trees dotted with rags, beads and dodies

Double Take: The little-noticed laneway called Misery Hill in Dublin

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The unlikely association with St James in Dublin’s Docklands.

Double Take: The bench in St Stephen's Green celebrating a little-known married couple

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The story of social reformers, Anna and Thomas Haslam.

Double Take: The vibrant new mural celebrating Waterford's Viking heritage

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Ireland’s oldest walled city got a colourful makeover.




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