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[Bernie]

3d/12a. On the streets of Dublin this character didn't need to come in from the cold(5,5)?o?t? ?o?t?. Could it be Forty Coats?

[cashier]

Answered on another thread as Molly Bloom

[galma]

It can’t be Molly Bloom as the letters don’t agree with other answers. Forty coats looks ok as an answer.

[fuzzy-brain]

Not Molly Bloom as letter sequence is ?0?T? ?O?T?.

Your Forty Coats looks promising, and probably correct, Bernie.

[Bernie]

There was a character called Forty Coats. I cannot remember what.

[elliemay1]

https://lovindublin.com/dublin/the-story-behind-johnny-fortycoats-a-true-irish-character

[fuzzy-brain]

Have a read.

Johnny Forty Coats was a Dublin vagrant who was so named for his habit of wearing multiple overcoats regardless of the weather. Francis Mc Manus, writing in an obituary for him in the Irish Press in February, 1943 described him thus, "Winter or Summer, he dressed as if he were living in some blizzard-stricken spot within a stone's throw of the Arctic Circle. He wore innumerable overcoats - perhaps he himself forgot how many of them there were! - until he was encased and layered like a fine onion."

[Bernie]

I googled Forty Coats and it was a Children's programme produced by RTE in the 1980s!!