 In 1989, both Philip "the horse" McCaffrey and Kevin Molloy left the band, and Paddy Sweeney (formerly of the Barleycorn) stepped in and one album resulted, "Home and Away".The Dublin City Ramblers then went on to call their next album "Home & Away" which included more original material like, "Dublin is Me", "Danny Farrell", "Wheel the perambulator, John" and the wintery classic "A Children's Winter"

Shay Kavanagh joined in 1992 and this line up (Patsy, Sean, Paddy and Shay) released "Recorded Live at Johnny Fox's Pub" and "The Craic and Porter Black", the latter being one of their better albums – a very pleasant excursion through some of the best known Irish pub songs.Unfortunately, "The Craic" was to be Patsy Watchorn's swan song, as he left the band in 1995 to pursue a solo career.