New Canopies

We finally got our canopies for the outdoor stalls. woohoo!!!
Since we started the outdoor pitches we've been renting canopies every month off Dublin City Council - bit of a hassle and they couldnt guarantee us availability every month so we had to invest in our own. Its been a long time negotiating with the bank, wondering whether it was the right thing to do, wondering whether we could afford it....but we did it. Now just 3 years of repayments to look forward to (yessss!!)

So thanks to anyone who bought a raffle ticket over the last few months to help us out. Any donations or help are still greatly appreciated so slip a euro or two on the sly into the donations bin if ever you come down to the market and like what you see.

Ruble Jumble Poster

We loooooooove this months poster. Daragh Kinch has completely surprised us with his Rumble Jumble Flea Market Monthly Mania.

other things from Daragh can be viewed here: www.macadamia-cst.com

Sorry we haven't put up posters for the last few months... here they are.. Starting with the most recent July by Marcelo BAdARI contact him at marcelo@badari.net or check out his web site www.badari.net.



Before that we had Gaetan Billault who designed the super cool June poster. You can contact at gaetan_billault@hotmail.com or check out his web site at www.gaetan-billault.com



May poster was designed by the hilarious Matt Griffin, thank you Matt! check out his work on www.matthewjgriffin.com or email him at matt@matthewjgriffin.com



And April was designed by jacqui ferns, thank you jacqui. You can check out her work at www.jacquiferns.com

couple of nice snaps from the Pop Up market at SoGo


Everyone was in great spirits despite the notsodelightful weather

POP UP FLEA SUNDAY MAY 2nd

We are joining forces with SoGo – Dublin Arts Festival next weekend to bring you a once off POP UP FLEA MARKET in the centre of Dublin. Its gonna take place just a stones throw from Grafton st in the open air car park on Andrews lane. There will be 30 traders selling from their cars, food stalls, a kids area run by the SCOOP Foundation (www.thescoopfoundation.com) live grafitti artists and a performance area for buskers.

So get yourself down to do some alternative shopping in the city centre next Sunday May 2nd 12 – 5pm

AND If you are interested in getting carbootastic and setting up shop for the day we have a few car spaces left which you can apply for by filling out the form here.

***ROLLOVER RAFFLE***

Thanks to everyone for coming down to the flea yesterday and thanks in particular to anyone who bought a raffle ticket or made a donation to the funding of the new wooden frame canopies that we are hoping to buy from Germany. At the moment we have to rent the blue and white gazebos from Dublin City Council, who cannot guarantee their availability for every flea market day. We are one of the only markets in ireland to provide its traders with everything they need to trade - canopies, tables, chairs etc. By doing this the market is accessable to everyone, not just professional traders. So buying these canopies ourselves is something we really want to do and is absolutely necessary for the continuation of the market.

Plus, they look gorgeous!!


So if you bump into any of us around town sign yourself up for a few raffle tickets. Its a rollover for the whole summer, so as prizes are given away, more and more will be added each month. Here’s the lineup so far:

ELECTRIC PICNIC TICKET www.eletricpicnic.ie
BODY AND SOUL SOLSTICE GATHERING FESTIVAL TICKETS www.bodyandsoul.ie
MEAL FOR 2 IN UKIYO www.ukiyobar.com
MEAL FOR 2 IN GRUEL
‘ALL BAR NONE’ COCKTAIL AND DRINKS HAMPER www.allbarnone.ie
GUBBEEN FARMHOUSE PRODUCTS HAMPER www.gubbeen.com
MEAL FOR 2 IN THE HAPPY PEAR IN GREYSTONES www.thehappypear.ie
MEAL FOR 2 AT THE CO-OP CAFE
JAMES HANLEY ARTWORK www.jameshanley.net
MR STEVE MCCARTHY ARTWORK mrstevemccarthy.blogspot.com
FIRST EDITION SEX PISTOLS – NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS LP
BOTTLE OF PROSECO AND LUNCH FOR 2 AT THE CAKE CAFE www.thecakecafe.ie
FREE HAIRCUT BY JOHN MCCLOURY
DUBLIN FLEA MARKET SURPRISE BOX OF TAT!! www.dublinflea.ie

Outdoor Flea

Delighted, delighted, delighted to have finally gotten the go ahead to extend the market out onto the square. We were getting that little bit cramped inside and were in need of a bit of a stretch so we added an extra 20 stalls to the existing 40 inside the warehouse. We're glad to be bringing a bit of life to a square that is so under-utilised and an area that has been screaming out for a revival.
It was an early start lashing up all the canopies, scrubbing the furniture (still dirty from last years electric picnic) but the sun we ordered was right on time and everything was peaches from there on in.