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By *lameBoy OP Man
over a year ago

Enfield & Dublin

Right gang, share your reminisces of Ireland as it was. Some details are long lost and forgotten. Let’s dig up a few. I’ll start off.

Do you remember when the M50 only went as far as Tallaght?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does anyone remember when Brunch ice creams were actually properly coated in whatever the pink and beige things are?

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

Do you remember when you had five, yes five

(.. before Channel 4)

channels on your television and your cousins had only two (or vice versa) ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend

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By *risharrowMan
over a year ago

clare

Do you remember the day a chomp and a fredo cost 10p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend "

Or having to reverse dial, hanging up, and hoping the person would ring back

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend "

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Or arranging on a Friday afternoon over the phone to meet your friends on a Saturday night "somewhere in O'Neills in Suffolk Street"

..and somehow you always did!!

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"Does anyone remember when Brunch ice creams were actually properly coated in whatever the pink and beige things are?"

I only had one earlier and they are not the same but still good

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

When you were going on a family trip and there was no need of booster seats or nothing. You could be hanging out the window for all anyone cared

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember when you were the only house on the street with a phone and people would ring looking for other people on the street? Or when you would get people coming up to the house to tell you there was a phone call on the public phone box for you?

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By *umon337Man
over a year ago

Offaly

Remember when we hadn't realised that Bono was an eejit.... simpler times.

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By *lameBoy OP Man
over a year ago

Enfield & Dublin

When smoking indoors in pubs, restaurants, offices and shops was perfectly normal.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember the good old days when the teachers could slap you... when you were only in baby infants...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend "

What if you remember making phone calls before call cards ?

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By *ildb3rryWoman
over a year ago

Ratoath

And when the Eddie rockets chips were properly coated in that orange salt stuff

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend

What if you remember making phone calls before call cards ?

Oh I remember them well and in the very old boxes I had a trick with a lolly pop stick to get free calls!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you remember The Riordans, Tolka Row and Black/White TV

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kellogs cornflakes and you all excited to get the toy

My grandad sold the Sunday newspapers outside mass, loved helping him, than bingo with him on a Sunday night where he bring all the neighbours

In school you got all excited I'd you got yo bring the TV down to the class lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when Fumbally eggs were €4. Now they are €9:50!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Virgin Megastore opened in Dublin and sold condoms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When Virgin Megastore opened in Dublin and sold condoms

Or Nurses Night in the National Ballroom, Parnell Square

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

"When Virgin Megastore opened in Dublin and sold condoms

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Shocking even by today's standards

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By *lameBoy OP Man
over a year ago

Enfield & Dublin

"When Virgin Megastore opened in Dublin and sold condoms

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Shocking even by today's standards

And singing and dancing Mary with her crucifix at the top of O Connell street.

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By *haosQueenWoman
over a year ago

Galway

"When Virgin Megastore opened in Dublin and sold condoms

And yet I used to go there to buy dice!

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME?!

Do you want remember when you could get a box of 10 john player blued for £1 and if you and your mate chipped in 50p each you had enough for a day

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By *antis tMan
over a year ago

Dublin3

The whoer in the sewer on dame street. (Not a pc name these days but people used to put fairy liquid in it and it foamed up was like mini foam party at 3 am ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend

What if you remember making phone calls before call cards ?

Oh I remember them well and in the very old boxes I had a trick with a lolly pop stick to get free calls! "

Ahhh ...some might say you were so naughty...but me ?..I'd say you were blazing your trail

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Upstairs on the bus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to go through the box of cornflakes to get the toy, my two sisters would be going mad, one of them because I got the toy before her and the other one because I put my hands inside the bag of cornflakes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah and it was still against the law to sell them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That was on O'Connell Street

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By *haosQueenWoman
over a year ago

Galway

"The whoer in the sewer on dame street. (Not a pc name these days but people used to put fairy liquid in it and it foamed up was like mini foam party at 3 am ??"

I always knew her as the floozie in the jacuzzi ??

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By *ubberNumbersCouple
over a year ago

dublin

The channel you got with the 'cabelink' that showed all of your available channels on one screen.

Call cards.

Glass Dublin Millennium milk bottles

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By *antis tMan
over a year ago

Dublin3

"The whoer in the sewer on dame street. (Not a pc name these days but people used to put fairy liquid in it and it foamed up was like mini foam party at 3 am ??

I always knew her as the floozie in the jacuzzi ??"
ah yea was called that too. Forgot that one. ???? very inventive with the names ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dracula ice cream?? Totem popcorn for 2p ?? Buying 10 Major cigarettes for my dad and they were 73¹/² pence!!

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By *ilderMan
over a year ago

dublin

"The whoer in the sewer on dame street. (Not a pc name these days but people used to put fairy liquid in it and it foamed up was like mini foam party at 3 am ??"

The floosey in the jacuzzi is now down the quays near collins barracks by the way.... In the croppies acre.

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By *onderingpurposeMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Getting passed over a turnstile to get into a match as a kid

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By *avan5Man
over a year ago

cavan

Do you remember the first sandwich toaster. Revolutionary

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh soda stream. I remember a friend getting one.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Remember when you got to your teens and you got horny and looking for sex everyday...going to every party and learning how to open a bra

Now ...in my 50's ...how things have changed

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Right gang, share your reminisces of Ireland as it was. Some details are long lost and forgotten. Let’s dig up a few. I’ll start off.

Do you remember when the M50 only went as far as Tallaght?"

And started in Blanchardstown

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember when you got to your teens and you got horny and looking for sex everyday...going to every party and learning how to open a bra

Now ...in my 50's ...how things have changed

You still can't open a bra one handed lol

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Remember when we got our first VHS player. Being able to record your favourite tv shows and being too afraid to speak in case your voice was recorded too.

Calling into to video library and picking out your movie for the night along with a heap of snacks. Then having to rewind the video before bringing it back but always forgetting to do it.

And having a sneaky look in the adult section

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Sean Lemass (the father in law of Charlie Haughey) was An Taoiseach; he visited Belfast and was pelted with snowballs by Ian Paisley.

An unsuccessful attempt was made to asassinate the Queen and Prince Philip by dropping a concrete block from tall scaffolding in Belfast City Centre onto the bonnet of their car.

That was in 1966; since then every bridge that any royal visitor to the north passes under is checked and guarded! Fact.

And a plate of chips in a cafe could be bought for 10d, which is 4.5p.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember two tv channels BBC and ITV both in black and white

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By *ohnFKMan
over a year ago

Where the Streets Have No Name

'When we were young nobody died

And nobody got older,

The toughest kid in the street

Could always be bought over,

And the first time that you loved

You had all your life to give

At least that's what you said.

The first time you got d*unk

You drank pernod and dry cider,

Smashed a window in as the police came round the corner,

You didn't have no time to run...

And your dad stood up for you

As the judge said you're a fool.

Babies, sex and flagons, shifting women, getting stoned;

Robbing cars, bars and pubs, rubber johnnies, poems;

Starsky and Hutch gave good TV;

And Starsky looked like me

When we were young'

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By *inkywife1981Couple
over a year ago

A town near you

Who loved Bosco as a kid

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I remember visiting the laundry room of a working Magdalene Laundry and being shocked by the conditions the young girls were having to s###e in ; when I mentioned the injustice of this in school the following week, one fellow pupil from a very devout catholic family, was emphatic about their treatment because they were fallen women who had sinned by having sexual relations and becoming pregnant whilst unmarried!

It was decades before this scandal was exposed by Mary Raftery from RTE.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember when you got to your teens and you got horny and looking for sex everyday...going to every party and learning how to open a bra

Now ...in my 50's ...how things have changed

Finding porno magazines randomly in the woods

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

"Remember when you got to your teens and you got horny and looking for sex everyday...going to every party and learning how to open a bra

Now ...in my 50's ...how things have changed

Bras are still basicly the same?and i still cant open them

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend

What if you remember making phone calls before call cards ?

Oh I remember them well and in the very old boxes I had a trick with a lolly pop stick to get free calls! "

I used be a dab hand at tapping out a phone number on the old rotary phones

Or having to ring the opperator to book a line to ring relitavies in england

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

It was illegal to buy condoms in Dublin, if you went down to Jury's for one of their cheap weekends!

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By *xplicitMan
over a year ago

donegal

The red triangle

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Remember when you got to your teens and you got horny and looking for sex everyday...going to every party and learning how to open a bra

Now ...in my 50's ...how things have changed

Finding porno magazines randomly in the woods"

Or your mates would rob their da's

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Watching a porn film on vhs that was worn down to fuck it was watched so many times

Sitting on the couch with your mates as someone had a free gaff

Everyone trying to hide a horn in their jeans and being afraid to use the toilet first in case you were slagged about going for a wank

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By *tonearmyMan
over a year ago

galway

Do u remember when u shook the phone box and all the 20p coins fell out

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

South Side.

The seriously overloaded boat from Howth to Ireland's Eye on a sunday.

Homework!

Mitching from school.

My first job.. And i had to hand up my wages to my ma,

Hitching from Dublin to Galway aged 14.

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By *exy Ruby 100 300Couple
over a year ago

unknown

I remember going to d celebrity club in Dublin in d 70s n for 5 pounds you could get 2 vodkas n orange b4 it opened for one pound fifty pay in n a taxi home n still have 50p left in d morning, hard to believe, R x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'When we were young nobody died

And nobody got older,

The toughest kid in the street

Could always be bought over,

And the first time that you loved

You had all your life to give

At least that's what you said.

The first time you got d*unk

You drank pernod and dry cider,

Smashed a window in as the police came round the corner,

You didn't have no time to run...

And your dad stood up for you

As the judge said you're a fool.

Babies, sex and flagons, shifting women, getting stoned;

Robbing cars, bars and pubs, rubber johnnies, poems;

Starsky and Hutch gave good TV;

And Starsky looked like me

When we were young'

The old days

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By *antis tMan
over a year ago

Dublin3

Danger doyles temple bar ?

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By *ARRYGOODMan
over a year ago

Leixlip

First McDonalds in Dublin opened in Grafton St in 1977 and the long queues for a Big Mac.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I remember going to d celebrity club in Dublin in d 70s n for 5 pounds you could get 2 vodkas n orange b4 it opened for one pound fifty pay in n a taxi home n still have 50p left in d morning, hard to believe, R x"

You can get that in Wetherspoons today :P

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

There were no mobile phones

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By *limfitladMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Marathon bar changed its name to snickers

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By *ezoMan
over a year ago

The Kingdom

When greeting stringers in the street as you passed by was the norm.

When computers used cassette tapes.

Bosco!

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By *ogladyWoman
over a year ago

The bog

Having to rent out a TV or put a 50p into a box on the side of the TV to watch it..

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The weekly collections in school for "the black babies"!

Raising finance to fund missionaries who would propagandise people in Third World countries about the merits of belonging to the corrupt Catholic Church!

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

RTE television did not even exist and the Dublin skyline was cluttered with television aerials all pointing towards Wales; Radio Eireann did not start broadcasting until 0730 each morning, that was initiated by its theme tune, O'Donnell Abu, played on a xylophone.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Spelling correction:

zylophone, which is similar to a glockenspiel.

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By *j69funCouple
over a year ago

kildare

Listening to Altanic 252 radio station.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Taping song off the radio and being ragin if the DJ came over the perfect recording.

Crisps before foil wrappers.

Skinned knees and not a plaster in sight.

Building forts and having a war by throwing stones at each other….lucky we never lost an eye.

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By *iktikiCouple
over a year ago

cork

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend

What if you remember making phone calls before call cards ?

Oh I remember them well and in the very old boxes I had a trick with a lolly pop stick to get free calls! "

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By *iktikiCouple
over a year ago

cork

Trying to tune the radio into Radio Caroline

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

Using pram wheels to build go carts.

Bag of tayto, Mars bar and can of Coke cost less than 50p.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Grundig tvs.

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

When there was no m50.

Glass milk bottles delivered to your gate with foil caps that the crows punctured to get the cream.

Black and white tv.

Watching Greese in the cinema in Lucan and everyone up dancing.

When the ilac was THE only shopping centre.

The rotary public phone with the A & B buttons and how to get calls for free.

The home of billiards on Batchelors walk.

Knacker drinking cider inbthe fields until

Going to concerts in the SFX

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Galway City didn't have a pretentious "Latin Quarter"

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Taking daffodils from people's gardens to bring home to your mother on mothers day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Taking daffodils from people's gardens to bring home to your mother on mothers day

Was it even a thing? I genuinely never heard of it until I was living in the UK in the late 80s

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Taking daffodils from people's gardens to bring home to your mother on mothers day

Was it even a thing? I genuinely never heard of it until I was living in the UK in the late 80s"

Myself and my mates definitely did it...must have been around the same years when We robbed orchards

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

Kinda funny thread, the memories don't always match with the fab age of the poster.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trying to find your way somewhere using only a big map and road signs. It's a miracle we ever arrived anywhere

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Trying to find your way somewhere using only a big map and road signs. It's a miracle we ever arrived anywhere "

I still have a map in my car lol

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By *NawtyCplCouple
over a year ago

Around and about

Slow sets

Mixed tapes

RTE teletext

When MTV was launched

Song/videos and books being banned

Perms

Mostly Musk

Watching Australian soap operas everyday

Hiding the light on the vcr player in case the burglars spotted it through the window ( there were no burglars

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

You were the remote control for the telly as your da would get you to get up and go over to change channels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Trying to find your way somewhere using only a big map and road signs. It's a miracle we ever arrived anywhere

I still have a map in my car lol"

I remember going to Dalkey in...oooh must have been 1987 or 88...and the road signs stopped about 5 miles out. Had to stop & ask directions about 10 times before we found it

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By *ab365XMan
over a year ago

Paisley

I’ve got recurring nightmares of Twink (Adele King) appearing on “The Late Late show” trying to sing!!!!

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By *umpkinnMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Only this week I was reminded of the Superquinn creche and mala playdough.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kinda funny thread, the memories don't always match with the fab age of the poster.

I love these threads lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Taking daffodils from people's gardens to bring home to your mother on mothers day

Was it even a thing? I genuinely never heard of it until I was living in the UK in the late 80s

Myself and my mates definitely did it...must have been around the same years when We robbed orchards

I meant mother's day, not robbing stuff off the neighbours

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By *aid backMan
over a year ago

by a lake with my rod out

Remember when you had a left and right knee instead of a bad and worse one

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By *ab365XMan
over a year ago

Paisley

"Taking daffodils from people's gardens to bring home to your mother on mothers day

Was it even a thing? I genuinely never heard of it until I was living in the UK in the late 80s

Myself and my mates definitely did it...must have been around the same years when We robbed orchards

I meant mother's day, not robbing stuff off the neighbours

I’m saying nothing!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember when you had a left and right knee instead of a bad and worse one"

I hear ya!!

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By *ezoMan
over a year ago

The Kingdom

Remember when...you saw the first mobile phone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The whoer in the sewer on dame street. (Not a pc name these days but people used to put fairy liquid in it and it foamed up was like mini foam party at 3 am ??"

The floozie in the Jacuzzi we called her!!

She was on O Connell St. The coolest place to meet for a while!

The Tart with the Cart was over by Trinity

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Remember when driving to Brittas Bay meant 4 of ye fighting on the back seat with no seat belts between ye,stopping to let someone wee or puke at the side of the road, driving through The Scalp in Enniskerry and having to be quiet or the rocks would fall ( my dad might have been lying)

Getting to a packed beach and trying to find your parents shivering behind the same wind break as thousands of others as we all got them in Dunnes...it was like when the penguins got back to the ice cap wandering around

Warm cheese sandwiches and tea made on a little burner.

No suncream on anyone cause Irish skin didn't need it

Going home ,getting into the car with the plastic seats so hot you could cook a pizza on them

Playing games to keep your mind off puking...spotting the petrol stations...Esso was always the winner

Sand in your bed for a week cause you only had a bath on saturdays after all your elder brothers used the same water first

The good old days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Building forts and having a war by throwing stones at each other….lucky we never lost an eye."

I got hit on the head by stones sooo many times

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By *ed just RedWoman
over a year ago

Dublin City

Building forts and having a war by throwing stones at each other….lucky we never lost an eye.

I got hit on the head by stones sooo many times

I won’t say it I won’t say it I won’t say

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By *der54Man
over a year ago

that one there

The slow set at the Teenage disco dropping the hand onto her ass, praying that you wouldn't get a slap in the mush!!!!

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By *heNightKingReturnsMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Walking to and from school all week to save the bus fare so you could have money to go into town on a Saturday night and have a few pints of Furstenberg in a disco bar and run for the last bus home where there would always be a fight

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By *ed just RedWoman
over a year ago

Dublin City

"Walking to and from school all week to save the bus fare so you could have money to go into town on a Saturday night and have a few pints of Furstenberg in a disco bar and run for the last bus home where there would always be a fight

Furstenburg!!!

I used to drink in the William Tell. Then Bartley Dunnes and then Bruxelles

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

You had to change the clocks manually when we lost or gained an hour

Now everything changes automatically...and who has clocks anymore

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By *unsigntwoCouple
over a year ago

athlone

Omg!!! reading over all those above is making us feel very old

Mrssun

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By *ursecretmischiefCouple
over a year ago

The West

If you drove to Dublin from the west you drove through Kilcock, Maynooth, Leixlip, Lucan and Chapelizod....you'd drive buy the massive landfill dump in Bayfermot across from the Phoenix Park!

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

In UK in 70s & 80s girls in nightclubs danced round their handbags..

First visit to Dublin told only nightclubs were wine bars on leeson Street..

There girls danced round their wine bottles and left handbags on table

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By *orny-dick-30Man
over a year ago

City Center

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Right gang, share your reminisces of Ireland as it was. Some details are long lost and forgotten. Let’s dig up a few. I’ll start off.

Do you remember when the M50 only went as far as Tallaght?"

Do you remember when the m50 toll was 50p and was only supposed to be on place for 5 years

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Dial up internet

IBM computers

Netscape Navigator

Alta Vista

Betamax

Gofree.indigo.ie

Windows 3.1

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you remember when could rent vhs films from a mobile library that came around once a week. So you would watch the film about 7 times cos there was fuck all else on RTE1 or RTE2

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By *ezoMan
over a year ago

The Kingdom

Having to rewind tapes.

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By *olouWoman
over a year ago

Swords

Been thrown out of the house at 11am and told not to come back until street lamps came on.Food was stolen from every house we visited, money was used to buy loose cigarettes and a match lol

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By *adhatter and coCouple
over a year ago

Middle of mayo n peaceful tranquility

Jesus some history here, rem when tayto crisps were 3 p. And if you saved up enough bags and sent them away you got a finger powered small record back that played a song that excapes me now.... And heres a gem, rem when the petrol stations gave coupons when ya spent 10 pound on petrol, and when ya had enough you could redeem for mugs,digital watches etc.. And rem when shell petrol in early 80 s gave half tokens and the quest was to get the other half to make up a full token ranging from fuk all up to think 100000 pound. God damm some of these winners became famous on the late late show. All be it for 20 secounds about. Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Right gang, share your reminisces of Ireland as it was. Some details are long lost and forgotten. Let’s dig up a few. I’ll start off.

Do you remember when the M50 only went as far as Tallaght?

Do you remember when the m50 toll was 50p and was only supposed to be on place for 5 years"

Was NEVER gonna be free..ever ..once the Government saw how much they made it was never gonna be free , it was a licence to print money , l have been to Dublin a few times and the traffic heading towards the toll bridge on both sides was unreal and that was only one day of the week as such , the it'll be " free once the road was paid for "..like fuck it was .

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By *ezoMan
over a year ago

The Kingdom

Do you remember when there was only 2 channels on the TV?

Do you remember 1 pound notes.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"Listening to Altanic 252 radio station.

The massive aerial and brodcasting equipment of which now form the basis of RTE's Long Wave service transmitting into GB.

RTE reception is not great in parts of the North, for example, and 252 LW is very good, but receivers for Long Wave are now increasingly rare.

I have a Roberts radio with LW that is now impossible to buy, an FM reception in the Mourned is very poor because of the topography.

RTE stopped broadcasting on AM 567 many years ago, and when they threatened to stop LW there was an outcry from the diaspora in England and beyond.

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By *he SophisticatsCouple
over a year ago

Casa Del Fun

Sitting in the classroom and a duster suddenly flying by your head!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A mobile phone was the size of a brick , tayto were 3p a packet and a pint was a pound ? Oh n the brown fiver ??

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

Bottles of milk being giving in school for first morming break.

Waiting listening to radio hearing top 40 on a Sunday.

Lucozade with the tin foil around it given to you when you was ill.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you remember your first skateboard? Mine was a blue sitco rocket with red wheels in the late 70's, very similar to the retro inspired nickel boards available today. We didn't have skate parks, we rode our skateboards anywhere we could find with smooth tarmac. I remember reading in the Cork Examiner local gombeen politicians were calling for funding to build skateparks because us kids on skateboards were becoming a menace to society.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you remember you could go to the shop with 2 pound and leave with a load of sweets and a drink and still have change!!

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By *usietranslutTV/TS
over a year ago

carlow

"Do you remember when there was only 2 channels on the TV?

Do you remember 1 pound notes.

Do you remember 10 bob notes?

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

When I used to attend Mass in a catholic church, many decades ago, I remember women who had recently given birth (after having had sex 40 weeks earlier) being obliged to walk up the length of the chapel to be churched at the altar by a priest, that is she had to be cleansed of the fact that she had given birth.

Why did Irish citizens, especially mature women put up with this utterly ridiculous nonsense for so long, and within living memory?

As the broadcaster, Ray D'Arcy, said on air, the catholic church really fucked up this country.

Single men and single women, members of the priesthood and religious orders dictating to the Irish populace what their personal private conduct should be; farsical!

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By *208numeWoman
over a year ago

Navan

Penny jellies

Bazooka chewing gum

When I used to know every song in top of the pops

Tomorrow’s world

Kenny Everett show

When buses had a bus conductor.

The 50p with the hands on it

Roches stores cafeteria

Waiting for your dad to be finished with his shoe polish so you could use it to play hopscotch/piggy.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Do you remember when Star Trek was first brocadcast on TV, the actors, William Shatner, De Forrest Kelly, Leonard Nimoy and James Doohan (Kirk, McCoy, Spock and Scotty) used communication devices that looked like the mobile phones, which most of us stopped using years ago!

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

"Do you remember when you would go to the phone box with your call cards them were the days standing in them shivering ringing your boyfriend "

I remember the older payphones and learning how to tap them so you could call for free. The mother thought I was a great son spending my pocket money calling her

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By *inion42Man
over a year ago

minionland

Do you remember when you could buy 3 chocolate bars and a few sweets for a pound

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

Thumbing places,and getting there...on time and in one piece

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Do you remember when Tayto crisps went from 2p to 2.5p. Fucking scandalous!

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Thumbing places,and getting there...on time and in one piece"

To be fair though, the reason thumbing died out is that not everyone had a positive experience.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Holy f'in shit I'm/we're old

How many remember the black public phone ?

They had an ( A and B ) button and a rotary dial ,,,,,

Did you know that on those particular phones you could make free calls ?

You could tap the number into the phone by way of the the two " pins " that you placed the handset on.....

( ie ) 1 tap = number 1 , 2 taps = 2 and so on ,,,,, 10 taps = 0

Thinking back I possibly spent more time tapping that actually talking lol

All for the sake of 20 pence

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When you were going on a family trip and there was no need of booster seats or nothing. You could be hanging out the window for all anyone cared"

Fact !!!!!

I'm one of 9 children,,, we wer put in the fooking boot

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By *oudicaWoman
over a year ago

Kilkenny

Ah the good old days, loving these memories!

I remember not being able to phone school friends at the weekend because my dad had put a mini padlock on the rotary phone dial because of the bill my siblings and I ran up. It broke his heart when we got our first fancy cordless phone and he couldn’t lock it up any more

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By *etergemmaCouple
over a year ago

South Dublin Area

"When I used to attend Mass in a catholic church, many decades ago, I remember women who had recently given birth (after having had sex 40 weeks earlier) being obliged to walk up the length of the chapel to be churched at the altar by a priest, that is she had to be cleansed of the fact that she had given birth.

Why did Irish citizens, especially mature women put up with this utterly ridiculous nonsense for so long, and within living memory?

As the broadcaster, Ray D'Arcy, said on air, the catholic church really fucked up this country.

Single men and single women, members of the priesthood and religious orders dictating to the Irish populace what their personal private conduct should be; farsical!"

This is true. It was known as being churched.

Scumbags

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Why did Irish citizens, especially mature women put up with this utterly ridiculous nonsense for so long, and within living memory?

As the broadcaster, Ray D'Arcy, said on air, the catholic church really fucked up this country.

Single men and single women, members of the priesthood and religious orders dictating to the Irish populace what their personal private conduct should be; farsical!

This is true. It was known as being churched.

Scumbags"

The woman were blessed by the priest at the baptism to cleanse their sin

Our eldest it happened with a bunch of other women during the baptism ceremony

We were alone for the next one and refused to go along with it

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By *angero3aMan
over a year ago

swords

yes and had to press button on tv to change station try get young person to do that today.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I can remember that in public telephone boxes, long before phone cards, and 2p slots, there were two buttons, A and B; the phone had to be loaded in advance.

Not so very long ago, so called long distance calls had to be done through the operator.

The Dublin businessman who fronted the organisation which modernised the phone system was the Superquinn CEO Fergal Quinn, whose first supermarket had been in Dundalk's Clanbrassil Street; again long ago .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Right gang, share your reminisces of Ireland as it was. Some details are long lost and forgotten. Let’s dig up a few. I’ll start off.

Do you remember when the M50 only went as far as Tallaght?"

Sure where else would you need to go. Tallaght has it all

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By *teppenwolfMan
over a year ago

Cork

Taytos cost 13p and the bag didnt have a silver coloured lining

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Tayto crisps, in the North, a very long time ago, used to come with a separate little blue bag of salt, that you could sprinkle on the crisps, if you desired, or unsalted, which were flavourless.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Do you remember when you used to know the surnames of your neighbours, and possibly also their children's first names?

I currently know a few of their surnames, but none of their first names!

Over the years, lots have come and gone, without me knowing anything about any of them.

There used to be a sense of community; now there is isolation and individualism.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you remember when a full time traineeship in certain areas when the wage 25 pounds for a weeks work.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And when the Eddie rockets chips were properly coated in that orange salt stuff

Ah Yes

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

There were no traffic lights in any major town.

There were no parking metres on city streets.

It was easy to get an appointment with a GP.

Politicians told the truth; oh sorry that has never been the case!

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