Irish Brands No Longer With Us

steveone

were Lemon's mentioned in this thread?

steveone

and Glen abbey.. (apologies if they were)

TheScribbler

steveone wrote: »

were Lemon's mentioned in this thread?

I don't think they were but I remember being given boxes of Lemons as presents when I was a kid. The company closed many years ago but the brand name has been acquired by Robt Roberts who market sweets under the Lemons name

TheScribbler

steveone wrote: »

and Glen abbey.. (apologies if they were)

Glen Abbey knitwear, yes I remember that. Used to wear their sweaters at school

AI1979

TheScribbler wrote: »

Anyone remember Greenhills towels and tableware. Our house was full of it.

Does anyone have a blue "The Green Hills" towel from the eighties they'd like to part with? Or know where I can get one? I'm willing to pay.

LIFFY FISHING

uch wrote: »

Phoenix Ale

Still made

LIFFY FISHING

Foxford wollen mill still exist and doing well.
Lucozade gone from the longmile road, they also made beechams powder.
HB ice cream pulled the plug in Rathfarnham years ago.

MandaZach

Clinic shampoo, was that Irish? I loved the smell of it and it was blue, it wasn't great for your hair though.

branie

MandaZach wrote: »

Clinic shampoo, was that Irish? I loved the smell of it and it was blue, it wasn't great for your hair though.

It worked on my hair

HeidiHeidi

Oatfield Sweets in Letterkenny. I don't know who's still making them, but thankfully Emeralds haven't disappeared along with them!

Also Football Special - only every available AFAIK in Donegal - still available in a pub up there a good few years ago but when I asked for it recently they looked at me as if I was mad. Liquid sugar. Put kids into orbit!

The Cush

branie wrote: »

It worked on my hair

Wasn't good in the eyes if I remember correctly.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Oatfield Sweets in Letterkenny. I don't know who's still making them, but thankfully Emeralds haven't disappeared along with them!

Production moved by its owners, Zed Candy, back to the UK last May - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0508/1224315744970.html

L1011

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Also Football Special - only every available AFAIK in Donegal - still available in a pub up there a good few years ago but when I asked for it recently they looked at me as if I was mad. Liquid sugar. Put kids into orbit!

Definitely still exists. They also now do a "diet" version that still contains sugar as well as artificial sweetener...


Oatfield were sold to Zed who have a history of promising to keep production in Ireland and then don't. Closed a plant in Kilcock to sell the site on a promise of a new out of town plant; never happened.

edit: appears that's the second time I've moaned about them on this thread, I'm not obsessed, really....

HeidiHeidi

MYOB wrote: »

Definitely still exists. They also now do a "diet" version that still contains sugar as well as artificial sweetener...


Oatfield were sold to Zed who have a history of promising to keep production in Ireland and then don't. Closed a plant in Kilcock to sell the site on a promise of a new out of town plant; never happened.

edit: appears that's the second time I've moaned about them on this thread, I'm not obsessed, really....

:eek::eek::eek:

Samba

Greene's Book Shop

MYOB

MYOB wrote: »

Definitely still exists. They also now do a "diet" version that still contains sugar as well as artificial sweetener...

Yep, still going:

https://www.facebook.com/FootballSpecial

http://www.football-special.com/

I remember Colm Hayes on 2FM was talking to the owner a few years ago.

coolhull

Perri crisps
Pierce Engineering
Charms sweets
Progressive Democrats
Irish Press
De Lorean cars

aerial man

Bearhunter wrote: »

Donohoe's Big Brother and little sister range of minerals. Mmm, nostalgia...

The big brother red lemonade is still being sold in Wexford in Glass bottles, Great stuff I used to love the 20p 250ml bottles of skippers cola & lemonade (went up to 25c :O in 2002) but i havent seen those available for years.

r3nu4l

Amalgam wrote: »

People tend to think the 'pallet' retail idea was a Lidl or Aldi creation. 3 Guys out in Ballybrack had it.. it was like walking into a barn, untiled floors and a corrugated roof.. stock straight from a pallet. It's a Tesco now.

Gubay's also had the same system in Hillcrest, Lucan, which became Quinnsworth, Tesco, Crazy Prices and then Tesco again. I distinctly remember helping my Mam open a cardboard carton of baked beans from the back of the pallet to get a tin that wasn't dented

Lt. Palumbo wrote: »

Crazy Prices!!!

I can't hear "Tiger Feet" without thinking of that place.

Me neither

GerardKeating wrote: »

KingBurger

Burgerland.

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

metroburger on hawkins street

New York, New York, beside the Ilac centre Henry Street entrance

Sh1tbag OToole

Jip wrote: »

http://www.solus.ie/products.htm

Do they actually make anything or is it just one guy with his feet up watching the telly ordering stuff in from Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China?

Brands are so detached from the manufacturer now and they always try to seamlessly swap out the local made version with a cheaper imported one

whisky_galore

Irish Steel, still have a shed with corrugated steel sheets with 'Irish Steel - Haulbowline' on underside.

Irish Sugar Company and Siucra (as we knew it)

Guinness Peat Aviation, sounded like a turf-fuelled aircraft.

L1011

LIFFY FISHING wrote: »

Still made

Even in 2012, Phoenix had been gone for an aeon. 2002/3 maybe, at latest, for it and Hoffmanns ending. Cherry / Waterford brewery continued until more recently but not making those.

Diageo (well Guinness Ltd in those days) systematically bought nearly every regional Irish brewery - pretty much all outside Cork - and slowly killed off product lines, amalgamated facilities etc. Even went as far as to ensure pubs replaced the local branding with Guinness goo-gahs at the bar and so on.

manutd83

Crun-chos,loved them

Sh1tbag OToole

L1011 wrote: »

Even in 2012, Phoenix had been gone for an aeon. 2002/3 maybe, at latest, for it and Hoffmanns ending. Cherry / Waterford brewery continued until more recently but not making those.

Diageo (well Guinness Ltd in those days) systematically bought nearly every regional Irish brewery - pretty much all outside Cork - and slowly killed off product lines, amalgamated facilities etc. Even went as far as to ensure pubs replaced the local branding with Guinness goo-gahs at the bar and so on.

Shnakes, funny how history is repeating itself with the big bhoys buying out the craft breweries, this time milking it for what it's worth at least until all the hipsters move to California

L1011

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Shnakes, funny how history is repeating itself with the big bhoys buying out the craft breweries, this time milking it for what it's worth at least until all the hipsters move to California

Only happened here once, so far - but I'd expect it to happen again. Most owners wouldn't sell to Diageo unless they were bankrupt though.

Ralf and Florian

A lot of stuff in The Goodies would be considered very un pc now.One episode where they were all blacked up Al Jolsen style,though it was actually an anti racist message they were trying to put across from what I remember.

KingBrian2

Some of these brands are ancient.