Name changes over the years.

KevIRL

Regional Technical Colleges > Institutes of technology

toiletduck

Ucg -> Nuig

byte

aidan_dunne wrote:

Long Wave Radio Atlantic 252 > Atlantic 252 > Some short lived sports station that I can't remember the name of > RTE Radio 1

The sports radio channel in question was TEAMtalk 252! I think they do the premium sports numbers too,

Dinner

Did it go Oil of Olay -> Oil of Ulay or the other way round.

Larianne

Arabel wrote:

Did it go Oil of Olay -> Oil of Ulay or the other way round.

other way around

also Rte 2 - Network 2 - back to Rte 2 jaysus make up your minds!!! :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight

NIHED - UCB -- DCU

Phoenix -- Firebird -- Firefox -- FireSomething

grimloch

What about that Prince character, I won't even try to name all those.

Whateve John Wayne used to call himself too, Marion or somesuch.

billy the squid

Tayto LFCs became Tayto Honest ripples



NIHE - became UL

B+I Lines became Irish ferries

Madonna became Esther

Emerdale farm -> emerdale

The Title -> Ireland on Sunday

billy the squid

grimloch wrote:

What about that Prince character, I won't even try to name all those.

Whateve John Wayne used to call himself too, Marion or somesuch.

actually i think his real name was majella

guest31

Karsini wrote:

RTÉ Relays > Cablelink > NTL
Princes Holdings > Horizon > Irish Multichannel > Chorus
RTÉ 2 > Network 2 > Back to RTÉ 2 again

Immac > Veet
Cadbury's Caramel > Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Caramel


A few more botched Kelloggs brands:

Fruit 'n Fibre > Optima > back to Fruit 'n Fibre
Bran Flakes > Healthwise > back to Bran Flakes

Seems like almost every rebrand that Kelloggs tried was undone later on.

Yeah, and what was the story with that stupid new Kelloggs Corn Flakes box ... you know the one that was supposed to keep things fresher, but wouldn't fit back in the cupboard because the top was now in a couple of inches higher .. what a waste of money ... wonder how much they spent on coming up with that idea ... I never figured out how to work it either. IDIOTS !!!
Think they have since reverted to the old, slot device which is so much easier, the other drove me INSANE ..........

Draupnir

billy the squid wrote:

actually i think his real name was majella

John Waynes real name was Marion Morrison

Scarinae

Judy Garland's original name was Frances Gum
Marilyn Monroe's original name was Norma Jean Baker
Tina Turner's original name was Anna Mae Bullock
David Bowie's original name was David Jones
Cliff Richard isn't Cliff Richard's original name, but I can't remember what it was!

4Xcut

Rock 104(YEAH!!)>FM 104 (BOOO!!!)

Gary ITR

Cillut bang > cinnut bang

Hagar

Power's Supermarkets > Quinnsworth > Tesco
P7T > An Post
Pound > Punt > Euro
RIC > An Garda Siochana
Bono > God
God > Un-employed
Minerals > Soft drinks
Tinkers > knackers > travellers

Capt'n Midnight

Hagar wrote:

Power's Supermarkets > Quinnsworth > Tesco
P7T > An Post

P&T> An Post & €ircom

Gubay's / 3 Guys / H Williams

khmer Rouge > Democratic Kampuchea
OT Irish Politicians continued to recognise them as the official government despite the facts that they were no longer in power and that they put the country more or less back into the stone age , killing 30% of the population in the process.

Anyone care to do a tree of the Irish political parties starting in 1900 ?

Hagar

Paul Gadd > Gary glitter > Prisoner 56342

rogue-entity

Ah, Sky, We had it before it started scrambling.
Sky Channel (cable channel, then on BSB) > Sky One > Sky1 > Sky One. (and with so many idents too).

Movie Channel > The Movie Channel > Sky Movies Screen 1 > Sky Premier > Sky Premier 1-4 + WS > Sky Movies Premier 1-5 > Sky Movies 1-5

Sky Movies > Sky Movies Screen 2 > Sky MovieMax > Sky Movie Max 6-9 > Sky Movies Max 6-9 > Sky Movies 6-9.

Sky Movies Gold > Sky Cinema > Sky Cinema 1-2

The Learning Channel > The Computer Channel > .tv

Darrers > Londis (were they bought out?)

Channel Five > five

TnaG > TG4

ITV > ITV 1 <region name>

HTV > ITV1 Wales

That is all that i can think of right now.

sioda

Cash's Moon's Switzers all now Brown Thomas

Jet to Stat Oil

If your from Limerick Pat Graces famous kentucky fried chicken to pat graces famous fried chicken to The Chicken Hut (Trademark infringment me thinks)

sioda

Video City - xtra vision

Dord

4Xcut wrote:

Rock 104(YEAH!!)>FM 104 (BOOO!!!)

haha i remember that, i still have a Rock 104 sticker stuck up in my bedroom:D

constitutionus

you know the lamest one didnt even bother to change the name.

aer lingus

2 million to tilt the bloody shamrock on the tail fin, and then they put it back any way

meldrew

Barronstrand Street > Red Square > John Roberts Square
Corporation > City Council
Ardree Hotel > Jury's > Ard Ri
Lawlors > Bobby McGees> The Temple Bar > Nineteen
The Rogue > The Wacky Apple
Just a few for that the Waterford crowd might recognise !

FatherTed

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

i think the coco pops was something to do with the coco pops name being unpronable in asian countries.

think it was the same with jif. strangely enough, i find cif to be a lot less easy on the tongue.

i'd imagine opal fruits became star bursts because someone informed them that the sweets were in fact, not actually fruits.

Meet professional baseball player, Coco Crisp:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6983

Zebra3

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Gubay's / 3 Guys / H Williams

H Williams>Super Valu???

thejuggler

Zig & Zag > Bronx Bunny show > Podge N Rodge