Do you ever think of a childhood buddy?

arybvtcw0eolkf

who you've lost touch with, wondered how they're doing. Or if they've passed away think of them in your prayers?.

For me I've a few but mostly its a mate from my childhood (David Reynolds) who grew up in Balcurriss Rd (Ballymun) with me. But was knocked down and killed in his teens, but year's after he moved away from Ballymun and out to Blanch..

I thought about this yesterday when I found rubbish dumped on the street. This annoys the hell out of me, when I looked it was a guys payslip. And the name and addy was from a mate I haven't seen in about 25yrs but still listed at his parents house.

Anyway, I've often wondered how 'David Reynolds' family has gotten on since his death. And do they realise he's still thought of by old mates..

Anyone else ever thought about hooking up with childhood mates, or just even throw them a thought occassionally?.

Cheeky_gal

Thats so sweet...

Yea I would often think of my childhood best friend (Ashling keeve) ....nutters we were when you put us together....lost contact when I went to a different school to her on the other side of the liffey...haven't seen her in years!!!I remember when I was 12 I called to her house (6 yrs later) with a packet of chewing gum for her! Her dad was the only one there so I reminded him who I was and told him to tell her I said hello....looking back that was sooooo weird! Chewing gum!?! What was I thinking!

Savage thread btw!

Latchy

Hi Op , yes i was lucky to meet up with a childhood mate about 5 years ago in Dublin while over on a vist and it was great to be able to talk about old school days .I think old friends giving meaning to our lifes,specialy as we get older . It always hits me living in the uk that the chances of bumping into an old friend in town are slim to nil ,but at least when over in Dublin/ireland i have some chance.There are still so many friends i would like to meet again and i am always making enquires as to their werabouts.The web has being a great help and i have managed to track down and few and made contact over the phone.

cheer L

MagicMarker

Yeah i do all the time, when i was a little kid, about 5-9 years old, i used to always play with a friend who lived 4 doors up. Marc Matison.

We were best friends and played football all the time and pretended we were brothers, and when we grew up we were going to be a tag team in the WWF:D I used to go to his house and we'd play double dragon haha, his dog was called Rocky:)

I moved away and never saw him again. I'd be awesome to be able to contact him but i don't know how.

How weird would it be if i sent a letter? hahahaha

Twinkle-star15

Yeah, when I see photos of me with my friends when I was younger- I'm not friends with any of them any more. I still (vaguely) know most of them, but it's kind of weird to think that once we were really really close. Or friends I had in Irish college about 3 years ago. Kind of wonder what they're doing now.

Senna

was trying to think of another website, american site that tries to reunite old friends and seen this;


http://www.lostschoolfriends.ie/

might registrar and see if i find any.

Red Hand

I do rarely, but I don't think we would have anything in common or to talk about now. Even those in secondary school...can't say we'd have anything to say to each other.

But then again, I grew up far out in the countryside and I could count on one hand the number of times I hung around with children outside of school as they lived a good deal away from me.

shane86

Im mates with what id consider my best mate since I was five, 16 years ago now (as in like a brother, as all are my mates, but we have known each other the longest of all the lads). As we were reminiscing one night locked out of it night, we went from kicking the sh1te out of each othr when we were six over the rules or result of a football kickabout between our teams, to aged 17 when we kicked the bollix of each other over a bird, and once or twice in the following years. From headin to Bosco concerts way back when to mad nights at godskitchen in the point Im sure rows will happen once or twice in the future (we havent attempted to kill each other since February now It was his fault and he admits it).

In truth ive only got one mate from my school days who I truthfully havent a clue where he is, ir if he is even alive. He doesnt seem to be on Bebo and none of the lads have seen him since more than a year after we left school. I tracked down his ex girlfriends bebo (he was with her when he was 17/18 but broke up in bad circumstances, shes from down the country and i found hers through google because i remembered her first and surname, not sure whether to message her and ask what she knows)

Apart from that ive always wanted to track down a few of the birds who dropped out of my college course (in my college course there were about 80 pupils, equally spilit by sex. By about December nearly every good looking girl had left, one or two id like to track down )

Ruu_Old

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:

I do rarely, but I don't think we would have anything in common or to talk about now. Even those in secondary school...can't say we'd have anything to say to each other.

But then again, I grew up far out in the countryside and I could count on one hand the number of times I hung around with children outside of school as they lived a good deal away from me.

Yep, same here. I got in touch with a few from primary school that I had not talked to in years. It was pretty much a short conversation on what we do now and that was it. I know where most of my friends are now and suprised that majority of them are still at home with their parents. There is one person from college who I lost touch with, the pair of us were as thick as thieves.

Silverfish

When I was 7 or so, I was in Crumlin Childrens Hospital for seven weeks, where I hung out with this kid called Austin the whole time, I swear not a week goes by that I don't wonder what happened to him

The rest... not so much. I know what happened to most of them.

Exit

I think everyone has a former friend that they think about. I have one in particular for each stage of my education - primary, secondary and college. The first two I just lost contact after I left the school, I exchanged e-mails with the girl after college, but over time she stopped replying.
I'd like to have kept in contact but at this stage, I don't think I'd have much in common with the early ones. It'd probably be an awkward conversation. If I was really bothered, I could easily get in contact as I know where the first two live, and obviously still have the third's e-mail address.

I'm not on bebo, but it's handy for searching for people you used to know and say "Oh she's married now" or "He's losing his hair already"

Overheal

Lets see:

Bryce from kindergarten: really just stopped wondering after a while

then there was a Sean from my elementary days - but we had a big falling out years and years ago: so **** him.

Shane from middle school - he was a bright guy but not in the best family situation: I do wonder where hes at now.

and those were the good people from back when I used to live in the states. It didnt take too long at all to fall out of contact.
then ye got the group from Secondary School in Ennis - but theyre all doing their own **** now: still pretty coherent up in Galway now though. Im just out here in Carlow. Dont talk to them nearly as often as I should.

Firetrap

No. The only thoughts I have about my childhood buddies/classmates is that they're not worth thinking about. If I was unlucky enough to be invited to a class reunion, I wouldn't bother going.

tribulus

This Dutch bloke I was friends with on holidays 11years ago. He was very good at football (or so I thought) I always wondered if he ever played for Ajax since he was from Amsterdam.

That and a friend who died of a heart attack when he was 14. Had the same humour as me and found the most offensive things the funniest so I'm often reminded of him.

Blackhorse Slim

Mairt wrote:

Anyway, I've often wondered how 'David Reynolds' family has gotten on since his death. And do they realise he's still thought of by old mates..

I never really knew David, he was older than me, but I was friends with his brother. Still keep in touch via e-mail. He drives a taxi, just like his da.

Hagar

I know this is going to sound bad but sometimes when things are not going so well I think of my old friend Dessie. Qualified accountant, own business, yacht, everything. Then he downed off the yacht when he was 28 or so.

Maybe some people get all their good luck at the start and get to enjoy it for a short while, maybe some of us get small amounts of luck spread out over a longer period.

Pigman II

I think about some of the guys I went to primary school with and how they turned out. After Primary school I switched towns and schools and it was harder to keep up with the guys I was friends with during those 8 formative years. Irregardless I kept in touch and met up with a couple of them even tho we were in different towns now. But by about the age of 15 (either by fate or design) I kinda drifted apart and have never seen any of them since.

So because I've not seen them since in my mind at least they're eternally early teenage kids full of optimism and promise, even tho I know thru the grapevine that they've grown up and gotten careers and families and kids now. I've never tried to re-establish contact with them cos (like Ruu found out) I could only imagine being reminiscence and pleasantries and nothing beyond that.

TBH even by the age of 14 I could feel it slipping apart. Whilst I was going my way they were going there's and turning into typical teenage anti-social oikes that every secondary school seems to nurture. I just wasn't interested so I guess the split would have happened even if I'd still been living in the same town or even next door.

Still, like the guy said : "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" so those guys will always be there with me no matter where I go or whatever happens in the future.

flanzer

Every Christmas our family usually take out old photos and reminiss. Last year I found a photo of my 6th birthday and still know most of the kids at it. I know that one of the lads was and probably still is a heroin dealer and addict and has done time in prison for burglary and smugging drugs from the UK, while I know that one of the lads is training to be a solicitor and 2 girls
have gone onto be doctors. How easy it is to take the wrong roads in life!

There was one girl though who I was smitten over, Pamela Sarsfield. I was an outgoing child in the day but remember shítting myself giving her the invitation! She moved down the country shortly afterwards and never heard from her again and often wonder where abouts in the world she is today?

Degsy

Funny enough i was just thinking bout an old friend of mine recently.We hung around for twenty five years but kinda drifted apart when i met my ex(he was an awfull bull****ter and made a show of me one night).I rememebr he rang me out of the blue one day having got my number from my mother..i sort of arrangeed to meet but it didnt end up happening in the end.Any of my other mates i dont see its usually coz i fell out with them big-time over something.I do occasionally wonder about ex-girlfriends though,a couple in particular who i was mad about..

arybvtcw0eolkf

Blackhorse Slim wrote:

I never really knew David, he was older than me, but I was friends with his brother. Still keep in touch via e-mail. He drives a taxi, just like his da.

Seriously?. His brother's name was Robbie and he'd a sister too.

Are we talking about the right family?.

Blackhorse Slim

Mairt wrote:

Seriously?. His brother's name was Robbie and he'd a sister too.

Are we talking about the right family?.

Yep. I know Robbie aka Nobby, I grew up in Blanch. He goes by the name of Bob these days. Don't know the sister, but I met her once or twice when we were kids.

It's crazy, what the internet can do :-)

arybvtcw0eolkf

Blackhorse Slim wrote:

Yep. I know Robbie aka Nobby, I grew up in Blanch. He goes by the name of Bob these days. Don't know the sister, but I met her once or twice when we were kids.

It's crazy, what the internet can do :-)

Thats brilliant.

His sister's name is Paula. You might pass mention this thread next time you talk to Bob then. He wouldn't remember me, although he might remember the time I pushed him off a bus shelter and broke his arm, lol.

But he might remember my brother Eric, but they were both very young when the family moved out to Blanch.

John Mason

Every now and then i think of my gang from school and wonder what they are doing. Especially when i am out in my home town, its amazing how you think you will all be best mates forever an then you make one decision that sends you a complete different direction to everyone else

i think of a guy i went to school with, whom i really fancied, he hung himself when he was 17 - i always wondered why? and if all the rumours were true - RIP Bob Kelly

Terry

I see those I want to see.
I couldn't really be bothered looking anyone up.

Cormster

Like many people here, I often wonder where certain people ended up. The fact that I'm still living in my home town should make it easier, but doesn't really since I work the far side of the county and don't be out locally as much as I would like.

Theres a good few of the people I went to secondary school with still knocking around. More of the same are off travelling for a year or few. My parents would be friendly with some of the other parents, and my mother works locally enough, so they do occasionally meet either other parents or school mates.

Theres a good few from primary school who have disappeared off my social radar, many of whom I was never close enough to bother following up. One chap I was in school with (primary and a time in secondary) died while we were in secondary (4th year I think). A shame as he was a nice chap, as is often the case.

Dun laoire

http://www.lostschoolfriends.ie/

L1011

One in particularly who I kept in sporadic contact with but haven't heard anything from in over a year now. Internet has left me knowing possibly -too- much about the ones I have kept in contact with

metaoblivia

Sometimes I wonder about what happened to the friends I grew up with. One in particular, she was my best friend when I was 10-11. When we were 12, she started having a really tough time at school with grades and bullies, etc. She eventually developed anorexia. Her parents finally pulled her out of school and moved away to get treatment. I never heard from her again.

BrianD3

I have often thought about the people I went to school with but not in a good way. I got a hard time (bullied, no actual friends etc.) and couldn't wait to get away from both the school and the people. Broke off all contact with them and made a fresh start in college. However looking back I brought some of the bullying in school on myself also I thought that everyone was out to get me when in fact it was only a few. I regret not staying in contact with the ones who I now realise were actually decent.

Of course they are all probably decent now, even the bullies. Not really fair to judge peopel on how they were when they were 15. I'd still feel awkward if I bumped into any of them at the same time I'd be curious to know what they're all doing now

stonegroove

Mairt wrote: »

Thats brilliant.

His sister's name is Paula. You might pass mention this thread next time you talk to Bob then. He wouldn't remember me, although he might remember the time I pushed him off a bus shelter and broke his arm, lol.

But he might remember my brother Eric, but they were both very young when the family moved out to Blanch.

I was seven when we moved out of Ballymun, and yes I do remember "FALLING" off the bus shelter,

Nice to see that people are still thinking about David,

My Mam & Dad moved to Meath a couple of years back and are doing fine" I have a little sister "NICOLA 26" who has a Daughter and are both living in Cavan
Paula is married with two boys and living in Navan,
I am with living with my girlfriend & Our son in Blanch and everybody is doing fine.

Blackhorse Slim sent me the link about two weeks ago (thanks man)
But I have just checked it out now
It would have been David's 40th Birthday on the 14th of this Month (think of & miss him everyday)

I am new to this site & I just registered to post this comment.
Amazingly, I remember quiet a lot about Ballymun,

You must be Martin?
Hope everything is good with you and the family

LadyMayBelle

I wonder where a classmate of mine ended up, Joanne Brogan i think her name was...always thought she was dead posh cos she went to elocution lessons and I had a minor stammer and thought it would be my answer! think she moved to school in Kildare or Dublin...i wonder.

At the end of 2005 I met a girl I used to go to primary school with. At the time we had a laugh like kids do, holding hands in the schoolyard and stuff (only got reminded of that when her parents slagged us lol). And just last week I was browsing through Bebo looking for people from Ballyfermot to see if anyone jogged my memory. And there she was, she's now engaged! Aww.

Unfortunately I also came across the profiles of some blokes who used to make my school life a living hell.

arybvtcw0eolkf

stonegroove wrote: »

I was seven when we moved out of Ballymun, and yes I do remember "FALLING" off the bus shelter,

Nice to see that people are still thinking about David,

My Mam & Dad moved to Meath a couple of years back and are doing fine" I have a little sister "NICOLA 26" who has a Daughter and are both living in Cavan
Paula is married with two boys and living in Navan,
I am with living with my girlfriend & Our son in Blanch and everybody is doing fine.

Blackhorse Slim sent me the link about two weeks ago (thanks man)
But I have just checked it out now
It would have been David's 40th Birthday on the 14th of this Month (think of & miss him everyday)

I am new to this site & I just registered to post this comment.
Amazingly, I remember quiet a lot about Ballymun,

You must be Martin?
Hope everything is good with you and the family

Wow, this is pretty amazing. I'll drop you a PM with my email addy.

Of course I never thought that it would have been Davids 40th this year, dumbass that I am!.

Small world ain't it, and I'll fill you in on the bus shelter thing sometime now, lol... Needless to say we were all playing on it, and we convinced you that you'd fallen (in truth it was an accident) but being kids everyone was terrified of getting into trouble!.

Fook, this has really blown me away!.

I'll be in touch via a PM & Email soon. In the mean time please pass on my regards to your family.

Oh, and yes I'm Martin, and here's me now (I've grown up a little)

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

BUt just a little

Mr.Nice Guy

I've often wondered what happened to a girl I was friends with when I was in junior and senior infants in St Peter's in Phibsboro. Her name was Niamh and she'd red hair. There's a great school photo of me and her which I still have to this day and I have the grumpiest face imaginable because I was embarrassed to have my picture taken with a girl.

Would be cool to run into her but I'd probably struggle to recognise her since she'd be grown up now.

Blush_01

A friend from primary school died during the summer. When I came home for his funeral, I got sunburnt though it was raining. He'd have fcuking loved that. He was the best guy. He ran a shop in the primary school, selling sweets for twice the price he'd paid for them in the shop at lunchtime, until he was caught by the teacher. The two of us messed around with cigarettes behind the bike shed when we were about 9 or 10 but couldn't get the lighter to spark. Just stupid kids stuff. His sister died 10 years ago last weekend and I was at her anniversary mass. I went to a tiny primary school, only 32 pupils at most over the 8 years I spent there. I babysit the kids of people I went to primary school with occasionally.

My brother is best friends with my best friend from pre-school's little brother, they went to the same secondary school. It's a small world!

I miss people from secondary school, but I see lots of them around too. There are a few I'm very sorry to have lost touch with, like Laura Quish. I broke my foot one night in a nightclub and she and her boyfriend were the only ones who'd help me while other people just stepped over me. There are other people I sort-of knew who I see out, but I haven't talked to them for half a decade, and I've nothing to say to them now. It's odd. I sometimes wonder where other people ended up too. There was one girl I hung around with in first and second year, but she left school before she was 16 to look after her brothers and sisters. Last I heard she had got into trouble with some of the local drug dealers where she lived. Sad, but such is life. I think it's only natural to wonder who the people you once knew went on to become.

Nevyn

Yes and then for the most part I am glad i dont' see them.

faceman

ive a good story about this topic. Im 30 now and i had a good friend (gary) in my kiddie years and teens but we lost contact about 10 years ago. (We moved to different areas, no email address or contact numbers)

not long after i joined boards i posted a story in paranormal about a spooky experience that i had where gary was coincidently there when we were about 19.

turns out gary is a boards member! He posted a reply to the topic and we're back in touch since then! Yay for boards!

Beer is Life

I found an old photo album the other day stuffed down behind a dresser I was moving in my sisters room. In it were old pictures of me and my old friends from the estate I grew up on. I found it upsetting to look at them. David Murphy and Sean Breenan were my best friends from the estate. David moved away when I was about 16. He still went to the same school but he stopped talking to us. Met him twice since then in the pub but its like we never knew each other which is ****ed up considering how close we used to be. I moved away when I was 18 and lost contact with Sean, but I wasnt really hanging around with him much by then anyway. Met him in the pub a few times too but I dont know what to say to him. I guess we were just friends of convenience because we lived so close, but id love to know them now like I used to. I think about them often.

I had a few friends from secondary school Ive lost contact with, Eoin Keenan and Dermot Grace. Id love to see either of them again and often think of what became of those two carry-ons.

oneeyedsnake

Thaedydal wrote: »

Yes and then for the most part I am glad i dont' see them.

Why is that?Do you think you were too good for them or something?

popebenny16

great thread, logged onto that lost friends link and saw a few from the old school including a girl I had a big crush for in 5th class... and, amazingly a mate who introduced me to porn and 2000AD but who left for Scotland when times got ****ty around '85.

Another co-incidence, Mairt, is that I'm from Balcurris Road as well!!

arybvtcw0eolkf

popebenny16 wrote: »

Another co-incidence, Mairt, is that I'm from Balcurris Road as well!!

Damn!.. What end?.

And reading from your post we're around the same age.

Rhiannon14

And why is it that your best childhood friends seem to be the only ones on the planet without Facebook, etc? *sigh* If anyone finds Aimee Boulanger or Elizabeth Morette, let me know-hehe.

cance

i often think of a few friends from secondary school. my neighbourhood friends are out of my life by choice.

again, i'd probably have nothing to say to them, there was a class reunion recently but couldnt face seeing half the fúckin scangers talk about their brat children.

ruskin

Ive lost touch with the vast majority of all my primary and secondary school friends. Incidently, a few weeks ago, I passed one of them in the street and all we said to each other was "Hello, hows it going?", and then walked on. I was great friends with this guy in primary school and secondary. How does that happen, that people you knew so well and had so many laughs with at one time in your life, just become faces in the street? How come after so many years of no contact people cant seem to rebuild any real form of friendship? That seems sad to me. I just graduated from college a few weeks ago. I had a great class, and although some of us agreed to meet up again at christmas and others, I know that our meetings will become scarcer and scarcer until the people who are now my great friends, will turn into virtual strangers. Life is sad like that

Jigsaw

I am still friendly or at least still know all my childhood friends from, say 5 years old when you first start to have friends through to 11 years old. I also still have all my friends from 16 through to present day.

Thing is, I went to a different school from the age of 11 to 16 and it was not in my home town. I had some real good friends there and often I have had a thorough browse on Facebook, Bebo and Myspace to see if I can find them but rarely have much luck. Doesn't bother me too much now but used to kinda bother me.

popebenny16

Mairt wrote: »

Damn!.. What end?.

And reading from your post we're around the same age.

last block, beside St. Joseph's.

stonegroove

Mairt wrote: »

Wow, this is pretty amazing. I'll drop you a PM with my email addy.

Of course I never thought that it would have been Davids 40th this year, dumbass that I am!.

Small world ain't it, and I'll fill you in on the bus shelter thing sometime now, lol... Needless to say we were all playing on it, and we convinced you that you'd fallen (in truth it was an accident) but being kids everyone was terrified of getting into trouble!.

Fook, this has really blown me away!.

I'll be in touch via a PM & Email soon. In the mean time please pass on my regards to your family.

Oh, and yes I'm Martin, and here's me now (I've grown up a little)

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

BUt just a little

will do!
looks like you are lookin after yourself,

yeh send me a pm, and I will give my bebo & e-mail address

talk soon

Terry

I want your bebo and e-mail address.

Hypnotoad

Beer is Life wrote: »

I found an old photo album the other day stuffed down behind a dresser I was moving in my sisters room. In it were old pictures of me and my old friends from the estate I grew up on. I found it upsetting to look at them. David Murphy and Sean Breenan were my best friends from the estate. David moved away when I was about 16. He still went to the same school but he stopped talking to us. Met him twice since then in the pub but its like we never knew each other which is ****ed up considering how close we used to be. I moved away when I was 18 and lost contact with Sean, but I wasnt really hanging around with him much by then anyway. Met him in the pub a few times too but I dont know what to say to him. I guess we were just friends of convenience because we lived so close, but id love to know them now like I used to. I think about them often.

I had a few friends from secondary school Ive lost contact with, Eoin Keenan and Dermot Grace. Id love to see either of them again and often think of what became of those two carry-ons.

What secondary did you go to?

arybvtcw0eolkf

popebenny16 wrote: »

last block, beside St. Joseph's.

Wow!.

I hung around there during the early 80's!.

Some names I remember from those blocks are 'Linda Douglas', 'Linda Wright', 'Noel (Skinner from Sheriff St) Rooney', 'Jerry Palmer', Patrick (Padser) O'Connor'.

Some great days up there, knacker drinking in the sheds, drinking and driving the ol' DT175's like crazy on 'the seven pitches'.

arybvtcw0eolkf

stonegroove wrote: »

will do!
looks like you are lookin after yourself,

yeh send me a pm, and I will give my bebo & e-mail address

talk soon

Ok PM'd you my details, looking forward to hearing from you.