Christmas Shopping Day in Dublin City, Ireland 1970

only 14 shopping days to christmas and on this traditional pre-christmas holiday in the country there is the usual huge influx of people into dublin but while parents came to do christmas shopping it was center for the children in stores throughout the city thousands of children chewed to shake his hand and tell him what they wanted for christmas it was not a happy day for everyone however the arrival of hundreds of extra cars carrying all these shoppers created traffic problems this time last year parking was at such a premium that cars had to keep cruising for hours this year there was an improvement when many motorists evidently heeded the warnings of cie and the guardi and left their cars outside the city the introduction of the parking meters this year has also helped the situation considerably also easing the situation somewhat is the fact that while many shops in the country closed on december 8th more and more are now remaining open center city bus routes reported a big increase in passenger traffic but according to a cie spokesman traffic moved smoothly throughout the day [Music] but what did the thrawn streets mean to the traders a spokesman for one large department store said they expected the des business alone to come to thirty thousand pound about six percent more than a normal busy day

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Published: Fri Dec 24 2021