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Northshore October 2025
It was 92 days before St. Patrick’s Day when I started this assignment. I know that because the sign counting down the days loomed bright and merry in December over the bar at O’Neill’s in Salem. Beneath twinkly white lights, there we are— my friends and I taking down a basket of steak fries in curry sauce, a mainstay at the nearly 20-year-old Washington Street establishment, while chatting with manager Mary Levasseur, who loves how the place seems to magically whisk her back to County Louth. “It’s very much like home here; [it’s] the closest thing,” she says, pointing to the two musicians in
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