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IRELAND’S TOP 10 SINGLES, APRIL 13, 1990

It was a trip on the Luas that helped land a key component on Rachael Lavelle’s debut album. For months, the Dubliner had been thinking that she needed a voice other than her own to recite some of the spoken-word lyrics, but her ideas had started to run dry. Then she was struck by the calm, measured tones of the recorded announcements on the light rail service — “An chéad stad eile, Margadh na Feirme; next stop, Smithfield” — and decided there and then that this was the voice she needed.

When the singer wanted to tie her excellent debut album together, she went to the woman whose voice is used on Dublin’s tram system

Ghosts of Heytesbury Lane: memories of a long-lost Dublin A writer recalls neighbours Brian Cleeve and Wesley Burrowes and her mews’ old spirit about 3 hours ago   Before there was a D4, Heytesbury Lane was a stretch of derelict mews to the rear of Waterloo Road, set in the remains of an apple orchard. When I moved here over 50 years ago it was unlit, unremarked, home to a horse and a handful of people. Although it has become, as the estate agents say, a “sought-after address within easy walking distance of city centre”, newer residents go from car to gate to mews, seldom setting foot...