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The site of the former Right Wing pub at Willowbrae.

There is currently rubble and an empty concrete yard where the Right Wing pub once stood.

The local bar had nothing to do with political leaning. The pub - more recently rebranded as the Radical Road in homage to the famous footpath nearby - was for years run by one of the city’s greatest footballers, G…