had ever won. Transport The Luas Green Line has two stops in the Ranelagh area: Ranelagh (on Ranelagh Road) and Beechwood (on Dunville Avenue), built on the site of the former Ranelagh railway station on the Harcourt Street railway line (the station opened as Ranelagh & Rathmines on 16 July 1896, was renamed Ranelagh in 1921 and finally closed on 1 January 1959). The 11 and 18 routes pass through Ranelagh. Initial plans for the Dublin Metro, Metrolink, included a proposed upgrade of Ranelagh's existing Luas stop to a metro station. However, as a result of the portal of the tunnel being moved south to just north of Beechwood, these plans were updated such that the Metro would no longer stop at Ranelagh, instead serving Charlemont (north of Ranelagh). Gallery People Notable people associated with Ranelagh include the following: Wilfrid Brambell (1912–85), film and television actor best known for his role in the British television series Steptoe and Son, was raised on Edenvale Road Maeve Brennan (1917–93), short story writer and long-time journalist with The New Yorker magazine, was born and raised in Ranelagh; she set the majority of her fiction in a terraced house based on her home at 48 Cherryfield Avenue Robert Briscoe (1894-1969), former Lord Mayor of Dublin and TD, was born on Lower Beechwood Avenue, Ranelagh Gerard Byrne (1958-), Irish artist, modern Impressionist, is living and exhibiting his work at the Gerard Byrne Studio, 15 Chelmsford Road, Ranelagh George Campbell (1917-79), Irish painter and Stained Glass artist lived on Florence Terrace, Leeson Park Avenue in the 1960's Martin Cahill (1949-1994) aka The General, career criminal, was assassinated on Charleston Road at the junction with Oxford Road, Ranelagh on the 18th August 1994 Hazel Chu (1980- ), Dublin City Councillor and former Lord Mayor of Dublin, lives in Ranelagh with her husband Patrick Costello, TD and their daughter Helen Dillon (1940- ), one of Ireland's most famous gardeners, who lived on Sandford Road from 1972 to 2016, operating one of the country's most visited gardens Ken Doherty (1969- ), former world snooker champion, is from the area and used to practice in a local snooker club, Jason's (demolished in 2012) Garret FitzGerald (1926-2011), who was Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland twice in the 1980s, and Fine Gael Leader 1977–87, lived the last years of his life at Anna Villa in Ranelagh Eamon Dunphy (1945- ), Irish media