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Take a Break

Take a break and watch this uplifting drone footage of Dublin

Leave the start-of-the-week stress behind for a couple of minutes.

IT’S MONDAY MORNING and that means it’s back to the grind for many of you.

Forget the start-of-the-week stress for just a couple of minutes and let your mind wander, up into the clouds above Dublin, with this drone footage by Darren Houlihan and Fred Kelly.

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The footage features pretty images of the coast and of the Obelisk monument on Killiney Hill.

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