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Anyone else here remeber Mosney?

  • 07-07-2013 08:52PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    It holds immigrants now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭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:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    I got nits off some bastard there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


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


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    I mooned the restaurant from the swimming pool.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Lumbo wrote: »
    I mooned the restaurant from the swimming pool.

    I seen a guy do a doo doo there! :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    I got a veruca in the swimming pool.

    Hoppy memories.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭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 :o all down the fcuking slide, like lava


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭BNMC


    Got my first blowjob in Mosney. Great memories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭DjFlin


    BNMC wrote: »
    Got my first blowjob in Mosney. Great memories.

    And there goes my childhood....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    I remember going to SnowParty at Mosney.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    I remember going to SnowParty at Mosney.

    Sasha & Digweed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,608 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Mosnia

    the horror.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,180 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    Mosnia

    the horror.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    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!!!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭LeBash


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    mosnia


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