Anyone else here remeber Mosney?

jjbrien

I remember when I was a kid the highlight of my summer was my birthday trip to Mosney for a day trip. Everything was free when you went in ok some of the amusements were not the best but we had great fun as kids. I was wishing today I could take my niece there but sadly it isn't open anymore. But its all still standing. If i ever win the big euro millions jackpot id reopen it and do it up with good amusements. Something like that is needed here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWNSvXwgXHQ

Sir Humphrey Appleby

I remember when it was still called Butlins.
Both of my parents worked in it back in the 50's.

Sunnyisland

The red & green coat men...we use to annoy the **** out of them :-)

Rasheed

I remember the Community Games finals used to be held there. God the amount of shifting in those chalets was unreal.

.jacksparrow.

It holds immigrants now.

Drexel

I remember it! Was my one and only summer holiday as a kid! There was a cinema there and it showed arachnophobia even tho it was about 1995 :pac:

mightybashful

There's a face book page on mosney. Can't link on the phone, but there's ex employees and stuff that post there and plenty of old photos. And some new ones showing how its gone to shìte.

The place is sadly missed. Been to butlins in the uk a couple of times over the last few years and they do some trade.

Vito Corleone

I got nits off some bastard there.

jjbrien

God i had my first ever crush on a girl there old memories

xzanti

mightybashful wrote: »

There's a face book page on mosney.

It's full of racist comments.

FYI OP there's a big thread on Mosney over in the Retro Forum.

Pumpkinseeds

We used to visit relatives in Drogheda in the late 70's and early 80's so we'd always be brought/dragged on a day trip to butlins/mosney. I used to love getting the train there, that was the best bit. The rest was just the stench of urine from an open chalet door, the fumes from the chlorine in the pool that would make your eyes run just passing the glass wall of the building. Plastic canteens and general tackiness.

I have a vague memory of going into an outdoor water feature/pool thingy when I wasn't meant to and my mother had to buy me dry underwear, it was a horrible dark green colour I think. I was very young

Lumbo

I mooned the restaurant from the swimming pool.

Frosty McSnowballs

Lumbo wrote: »

I mooned the restaurant from the swimming pool.

I seen a guy do a doo doo there!

B0jangles

I got a veruca in the swimming pool.

Hoppy memories.

The Backwards Man

Mosney was the place for the posh families to go on holidays. Us peasants had to be content with the bog and the hayfield.

mattjack

My older , deviant cousin replaced the vinegar in the restaurant with vodka.

Ruudi_Mentari

Ohh i have some ragging rights..

It hosted Homelands festival; back at the turn of the millenium before its current state at which I got to have a session in a portacabin with David Holmes, Ian brown mani bobby g throbert inder goldfinger Kevin shields and BP Fallon :cool: amidst other pop luminaries and lumme tell ya, most of those guys were only out to get loaded.


Pontins, in Wales I recall in the holiday sense but only because my brother shat his bags all down the fcuking slide, like lava

BNMC

Got my first blowjob in Mosney. Great memories.

Warper

My brother was a good runner so was there as a child for the Community Games. I used to just hit the arcade playing video games, dont think i even went to see him race. Kung Fu Master and Paperboy were in vogue back then. Always remember been able to see the legs of the ones in the swimming pool as it was glass so u could gape in going yee haw

DjFlin

BNMC wrote: »

Got my first blowjob in Mosney. Great memories.

And there goes my childhood....

Sulla Felix

I remember going to SnowParty at Mosney.

Lumbo

Sulla Felix wrote: »

I remember going to SnowParty at Mosney.

Sasha & Digweed?

L1011

Got there with the Community Games and also did a school trip there, in the last two seasons it was open. Looking at the "now" photos on that Facebook page, it hasn't actually got that much more run down :pac:

Jonny7

Mosnia

the horror.

4zn76tysfajdxp

BNMC wrote: »

Got my first blowjob in Mosney. Great memories.

DjFlin wrote: »

And there goes my childhood....

Kids would've done anything for cigarettes and a chance for a spin in a car back then.

wexfordman2

Rasheed wrote: »

I remember the Community Games finals used to be held there. God the amount of shifting in those chalets was unreal.

I remember my sister winning an all ireland for gymnastics at mosney in the 80's!

smallerthanyou

When I was eleven I went out with my first boyfriend there. Lasted the whole weekend. We held hands and slow danced. It was intense!

callaway92

Jonny7 wrote: »

Mosnia

the horror.

Solid stealing from the previous Mosney thread on the exact same topic

Nodin

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Mosney was the place for the posh families to go on holidays. Us peasants had to be content with the bog and the hayfield.

Well for them that had a bog!!!!!!!

LeBash

I remember seeing a brown trout getting fished out of the pool by a life guard. Ahhhhh Mosney!

Wacker The Attacker

mosnia

Wabbit Ears

I walked through mosnia with a large and slightly psychotic german shepard recently. I was a bit lost. Boy did I get in trouble I tell you, the camp commandant was not happy one bit!!!

Jonny7

callaway92 wrote: »

Solid stealing from the previous Mosney thread on the exact same topic

ha, we all called it Mosnia back then, popular name

like Abrakestabra

MadsL

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

It holds immigrants now.

Umm...I don't even...*sigh*

Mr.Prodston

I thought you said Money

Riesen_Meal

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

I walked through mosnia with a large and slightly psychotic german shepard recently. I was a bit lost. Boy did I get in trouble I tell you, the camp commandant was not happy one bit!!!

Rumours abound it is due to reopen on 2015 as a Butlins, any truth to that I wonder?

jjbrien

Fieldog wrote: »

Rumours abound it is due to reopen on 2015 as a Butlins, any truth to that I wonder?

I hope it is id love to share some of my childhood with my kids. They would need to revamp it a bit.

Sulla Felix

Lumbo wrote: »

Sasha & Digweed?

Yep!

Sky King

There is an *epic* thread on Mosney in AH already. One of the boardsies shared loads of photos and stories from when he worked there, look it up, it's a great thread.

Captain Slow IRL

Homelands Ireland 1999

Epic

mikemac1

People went down a slide in the swimming pool and went to some underground area.

But I was never down there and never knew where they went

Celly Smunt

mikemac1 wrote: »

People went down a slide in the swimming pool and went to some underground area.

But I was never down there and never knew where they went

As far as i know they came out the other end as asylum seekers.

Oops!

I remember watching Ray Houghton score "that" goal against the Italians at the world cup USA 94 on the big screen in the hall, the place went mental..... I was only a chap.

Ah the memorys..... Oh ya and the big mushrooms and the slide in the pool.

MadsL

Oops! wrote: »

I was only a chap.

What are you now??

Oops!

19 years old than i was that summer....

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I got lost on a school tour here in first class. I wandered off solo and ended up over by the church where my teacher found me.

Stayed there for a few days one summer, we were really far away from the actual amusements and stuff, was it the R block? And on the first night some weirdo followed us back and wouldn't leave the chalet. I'm sure there's more to that story I just don't remember it, my mother was spooked for the rest of the stay there ha. That was the most memorable thing about the stay lol.

Then some god awful creepy looking old person singing guy dressed in showband clothes was playing there one night.
Don't remember being at the pool but remember seeing legs dangling in the restaurant.

First interaction with a boy there too. He held my hand. We were 8.

club goldgrain

F**K me, i think they call it bultins when i was there...............old

RayCon

Was there for a day trip once when I was a kid .... thought it was a dump.

enda1

How did it compare to Trabolgan?
I went there once as a 6 year old or so.

I seem to remember the crazy golf being great (it probably wasn't)

I am pie

Had a day trip from Belfast to Mosney in the late 80s (possibly 88 or 89). At that stage Belfast was a fairly intimidating place to be at times. The army were on the streets and police check points were all too common. The nightly news could be scary enough for a young school kid and you had to pick your walking route home from school carefully enough to avoid a confrontation.

I remember thinking on the train on the way home after seeing Mosney that maybe Belfast was paradise after all. Rotten dump!

jjbrien

I am pie wrote: »

Had a day trip from Belfast to Mosney in the late 80s (possibly 88 or 89). At that stage Belfast was a fairly intimidating place to be at times. The army were on the streets and police check points were all too common. The nightly news could be scary enough for a young school kid and you had to pick your walking route home from school carefully enough to avoid a confrontation.

I remember thinking on the train on the way home after seeing Mosney that maybe Belfast was paradise after all. Rotten dump!

They did do it up in the 90's but the Amusements stayed the same. I remember the gokarts they used to go mad if you tried to bump into someone else. Still the place was no Alton Towers. If they had just spent money on it..... it could have been the Alton Towers of Ireland