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By *ligolad321 OP Man
over a year ago

Donegal

What as a child do you remember being a real treat, that a child today would take for granted?

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Central heating or a hot shower

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

A bottle of red lemonade shared with my siblings. All 9 of them..

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By *ligolad321 OP Man
over a year ago

Donegal

"Central heating or a hot shower

Central heating.. I was jealous of my mates back boiler....

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By *asterandhissparklesCouple
over a year ago

tipperary

Everything .... Tell me one that had what kids have today

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

Getting 50p and thinking I was rich....

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By *s LollyWoman
over a year ago

The pub then supermacs ...

Turkey at Christmas and fancy biscuits

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Eating out in restaurants

Or even takeaways

New clothes....Easter and Christmas for new ones...rest of the time..hand me downs from cousins or bigger brother

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Since I am older than many, but not all, of the members the general std. of living was very much lower than generally obtains today in Ireland.

The blatant difference, that strikes me most when I am out is that the vast majority of young people have a phone, and a very powerful computer, which is combined into a single handheld device, as on Star Trek.

A change of clothes; I only had one set, and only one pair of shoes.

Two monochrome TV BBC & UTV channels, on a single domestic television set. If we went out into South Armagh RTE was available.

Emigrating relations, whom one never saw again nor ever spoke to ever again!

The list is almost infinite, when one delves into the fine detail.

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By *ed just RedWoman
over a year ago

Dublin City

A biscuit after dinner.

A bath at the end of the week.

New anything… shoes clothes books school bags. If it hadn’t gone through 5 previous families, we didn’t get it!!

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

Getting a duvet instead of blankets on my bed .

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By *208numeWoman
over a year ago

Navan

Me too. We called it an eiderdown those days....

And when my dad was finished with shoe polish that was great - we could fill the tin to make it heavy so we could use it to play hopscotch or piggy that we drew with chalk on the pathway.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Being able to taste the acute sweetness of sugar in confectionery, or very rarely honey on bread.

The majority of children's foods today are saturated with sugars, fructose and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, etc.

Children's tastebuds today have been desensitised to the point that they don't really taste anything at all. This regrettably also applies to most adults in westernised industrialised societies where processed foods is the norm.

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

Maids

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By *amalusMan
over a year ago

Tullamore

A phone. Not even a smart phone, just a Nokia.

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

Takeaway

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By *ePreferPineappleCouple
over a year ago

near by

When i was a child we still had the communism/socialism in our country… so

Chocolate and oranges

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By *innerboy86Man
over a year ago

on the border

Vienetta was the height of luxury growing up you knew was a really special occasion when the broken out

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

Cartoons on the tv , on all day everyday now

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By *ecret_one42Man
over a year ago

Waterford City

Porn! Lol. Well, not actual porn, but watching late-night foreign films on Channel 4 where there might be a brief bit of nudity was the most erotic thing to a growing lad.

Kids today don’t know they’re born, able to look at anything they want on their phones 24/7.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Air conditioning, esp. a/c in cars; we used to just open the windows.

For a time, in my youth I lived in a house with no electricity supply and with no bathroom or inside toilet. The nearest phone was three miles away; in a public phone box.

Furthermore, teachers were often abusive; today laws prevent this outrageous behaviour towards children

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By *ombikerMan
over a year ago

the right side of the river

Venetta after dinner.

Roast chicken on a Sunday.

Getting a lift to school.

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By *ai18Man
over a year ago

Templemore

Being the remote control for the TV

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By *olves at bayCouple
over a year ago

cork

Mr wolf here...having the gaming console to myself. Growing up with three brothers two of which where older. With at first commadore 64. Then Atari 7800, sega megadrive etc. To come home from school to find they where all out parent included...was bliss. No one to rush me off the system. Pretended not to hear the knocking when when my brothers wanted to come back in.

Now the systems still get used a lot But now from time to time I think of us all huddled around the T.V "debating" who's turn it was next. Of course it was the eldest in between everyone elses turn lol.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

If the war in the Ukraine escalates and daily energy supply, in the form of electricity, becomes a real problem, young people will find it difficult to cope with the loss of conveniences that they have been used to taking for granted; I often speak to young people about the potential loss of the use of their samrtphones; they tell me they couldn't live without them.

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

The chip van on a Saturday night. And then home to watch gladiators. Those were the days

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
over a year ago

ireland

Taken to the cinema ,once a year if we where good !

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By *axlecool03Man
over a year ago

Dublin

Waiting for TV Cartoons.. not like the on demand these days..

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By *on Draper2.0Man
over a year ago

Maynooth

"What as a child do you remember being a real treat, that a child today would take for granted?"

Going to see a movie like Star Wars.

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By *indenMan
over a year ago

Naas which is South West of Dublin

Speaking to someone by telephone….

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The merest hint of sex education from any teacher at secondary school, especially from the biology/science teacher.

Mercifully, this issue is taken for granted nowadays, I assume!

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