The owners of a popular community store in West Belfast have praised their customers for continued support over the years.
Paul and Jacqueline Donnelly have been behind the tills of Donnelly's on the Springfield Road for the last 22 years.
Having gone through a couple of owners, since the mid-60s, Paul first came to the shop as a young teen to help out – and hasn't left since.
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He told Belfast Live that with the surrounding community, they wouldn't be where they are today.
"The shop is here from the early 60s and a guy called Phil Donnelly owned it," Paul added.
"A guy called Dermot worked for him then, and ended up buying it off Phil and opened it as a small supermarket. There was a barbers shop next door and when it closed, Dermot then knocked the wall down and made it into a bigger supermarket.
"After maybe 10 or 15 years, the bigger stores started, and small stores were pushed to the side. John and Catherine Fegan took over then in the 1980s, and they were looking a young lad to come in, to throw things up and down the stairs... that's when I came.
"Officially, I am here from 1981, but I took over in 2001. We have customers who come in now, who were in when I was a kid. Now their children and grandchildren come in with them.
"Without the community we would be nothing."
For those who don't know Donnelly's, the shop sells just about everything - they are confectionery, electrical and seasonal.
This month, inside is in full Halloween mode, with decorations galore taking over the store. But just upstairs, Christmas trees are already set up and ready to be taken home.
Paul added: "We get asked for some mad things here, because there isn't much we don't stock.
"I got a phonecall one day and it was a barmaid from down the Grosvenor. She said to me 'Paul, could you cut a ring off a guy's finger?' And I said 'come up and we will see'.
"He came up and his finger was like a sausage. I ended up getting the ring off, and he tried to pay me. How do you put a price on cutting a ring off someone's finger?
"It has been great craic. You will never meet nicer people than you have on this road. I get people coming in and not even buying anything, they'll just come for a wee chat, and that's OK.
"They have always got your back, and we couldn't ask for better customers."
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