PlaceSaint Patrick's Catholic Church
80 m SSW
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An Caisleán Riabhach
Hell's Kitchen Bar & Railway Museum
A Taoiseach resigned because of what was said in this room.
Darren J. Prior · 2018 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · ark:/99999/c5hlk
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From where you are standing, 2 things to find
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The plaque on the outside wall: dark polished granite, gold lettering, a nighthawk in outline.
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The hanging sign above the door, which claims this is the only pub in the world with a train in the bar.
The plaque reads: "On January 10th 1992 the late Sean Doherty T.D. gave a television interview on 'Nighthawks'. That historic interview led to the resignation of Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey and it took place in this public house."
Doherty, a former Minister for Justice, told presenter Shay Healy on the RTÉ programme that members of the cabinet had known the telephones of two journalists were being tapped.
On 21 January 1992 he said on the nine o'clock news that Haughey had been fully aware of the tapping. Haughey resigned as Taoiseach on 11 February 1992.
The presenter later wrote that he did not realise the significance of what had been said until afterwards.
Read the third one closely: it is a Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland notice. That is the company the station down the road actually belonged to — the one the national inventory forgets in favour of a company founded in 1925.
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What happened next, and where
10 January 1992 · here
RTÉ film Nighthawks in this bar. Seán Doherty, a former Minister for Justice, tells the presenter that people in the cabinet knew two journalists' phones had been tapped.
21 January 1992
On the nine o'clock news he goes further: the Taoiseach, he says, was fully aware of the tapping and never objected to it.
11 February 1992
Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach. It happened in Dublin. It started here.
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- The County Roscommon Tourism Strategy 2025–2030 records Castlerea Railway Museum as holding the largest collection of rail memorabilia in Ireland.
- The enamel notices inside come from four separate pre-1925 companies — the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, the Great Southern and Western Railway, the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway, and the North Eastern Railway. One of them, the Midland Great Western, is the company that actually owned the line through Castlerea.
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PlaceBank of Ireland, Market Square
100 m NE
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PlaceTrinity Church (Kilkeevin)
340 m ESE
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65 yearsCastlerea Railway Station
560 m S
Phil Richards · 1985 · CC BY-SA 2.0
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128 yearsSaint Joseph's graveyard, Knock Road
1.3 km WNW
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