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Irish cartoon - anyone remember?

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  • 18-07-2008 1:22pm
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    future-shade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Does anyone remember an Irish cartoon. Possibly around 1990. Was like a claymation effort. Had a baddie who may have been called Barrer? He had an eye patch and could fly?

    Would love to know what it was called!
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    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    I think I know what you're talking about, was he like a little stick-man (brown or black), definatly remember an eye patch and he was always being chased and killed I think by the baddie (baddie - there's a word I havent used in a while!).


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    Unshelved
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    Was it part of Couched - with Barry Murphy?
    I seem to remember a character like a dragon and one called the Hungry Referee -

    Hang on - here's a clip -
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzf9xWuLKck&feature=related


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    future-shade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭future-shade


    Good try Unshelved, that's not it but I thought we had it there!! It's more of an outdoors setting. And it's a tidier animation than the youtube clip! I think it may have been on before or after Bosco? It may be a gang of Irish Warriors (if there is such a thing!) and their constant battle against Barrer!


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    Ponster
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    Try posting in the Retro forum...

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=253


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    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I am looking for the same animation. I posted in the retro forum over a year ago and no one seemed to know the name. They all had funny down turney mouths :) it was about high kings or something and narrated by a kerryman (I think) Maybe you could try your luck again in retro.


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    #7
    future-shade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭future-shade


    Thanks Ponster and Windsock, I'll give it a go! Hardly anyone remembers this show.


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    peter panic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭peter panic


    Balor of the Evil Eye.
    the series might have been called 'long,long ago'.


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    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    I remember that, loch na suil where Balor of the evil eye is reputed to have been killed is not far up the road from me!

    http://www.woodlandleague.org/newsletter/index.php?itemid=53

    I went up to see it when it empited, cool stuff!


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    lee_arama
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭lee_arama


    That 'hungry referee' claymation cartoon was a dubbed version of another cartoon. Just Barry Murphy rewriting the dialogue and doing the voices.

    Total class it was. Bring back The End I say!!!


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