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Meath Street florist shares fears for street trading's future

Kathleen Farrell has been running her florist business on the streets of The Liberties in Dublin for more than 50 years and she doesn't want to stop.

However, she worries that street traders such as herself are becoming less popular, not just with people but with the local authorities. Farrell tells us that the business on Dublin's streets has been going on for longer than the Liberties have been called the Liberties - 297 years.

"It was in the early 19th century. We done [sic] fruit and veg, fish, everything that Ireland produced, we sold here on the streets.

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