The end is nigh for the old phone boxes.
These relics of a bygone era are finally being retired from public use.
Crews in Dublin city centre were today busy removing these anachronistic devices, long since replaced by a mobile network of cellular phones.
Now a mere sight into the past, phone boxes have been in use in Ireland since 1925, but they will soon take up their rightful place in history, and forever rest in peace alongside VHS and cassette tapes, Laserdiscs, vinyl records, and so many other samples of technology past.
