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Where did you go on your school tours?

freshpopcorn

In primary school we went to a country park, UL activity , another activity place, (Lots of water sports which wouldn't have being my thing) Ice Skating, cinema and we may have had a few day trips also.

In secondary we went to a few place on day trips in secondary school.
We also went to Poland(Went somewhere on route) and Italy.
We did lots of sight seeing best part was going to pubs and clubs in the evening and seeing the teachers get a bit tipsy.

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gerrybbadd

Did you mean school tour OP?

We never left the country for ours. Strokestown House, Bunratty Castle, those kind of places was the height of it

Sonics2k

Viking World in Waterford was basically the pinnacle of it.

Pretty ****e school.

colm_mcm

Siamsa Tire and Aquadome in Tralee
The Square in Tallaght and the ice skating place in Phibsboro

NickNickleby

When I was a child I lived in Birmingham. I can remember three outings:

one to Stratford on Avon, very atmospheric place. Remember being in an old house, and being told it was haunted. Must have been the ghosts' day off though:D

Another was to Bourneville, the home of Cadburys. That was exciting, but for the life of me I cannot remember if we got any free chocolate, but I remember it being a lovely little village with flowers.

Lastly was a visit to The New Forest. Seemed magical to me, was waiting to see goblins or fairies or even some of the Merry Men.

These were all when I was aged between six and ten, and that's (almost) at least 55 years ago, so details are scant now, but I remember the feelings, if you get me.

The Tetrarch

Hill of Tara/Newgrange/Drogheda; Waterford.

My father was a national school teacher in south Dublin.
One year the tour went a bit rural. The boys started stoning cows as they had never seen a cow before.

Mehaffey1

Two night Three day trip to Shannaghmore Outdoor Education Centre near Newcastle, Co. Down when I was 11. Might have been my first time staying away from home without family involved. Was absolutely lethal, orienteering, canoeing, obstacle courses etc.

matchthis

Dublin zoo one year, the zoo in dublin the next and the zoo in phoenix park the year after. Snowballs and shandy for lunch

branie2

The Burren for a couple days for 2 years
Same with Spanish Point for just one year
Shannon Airport
Ailwee Cave
Cragganoun (excuse spelling)

Plumbthedepths

Dublin Zoo, back in the 80's. I was 9 at the time. The most depressing place I was ever in . If the animals had access to the means , i'm sure they would have committed suicide. Last school tour I ever went on.

GinSoaked

Sonics2k wrote: »

Viking World in Waterford was basically the pinnacle of it.

Pretty ****e school.

Wow that dates you to an very specific period. Wasn't Viking World one of those total flops that only lasted a year?

xzanti

From what I can remember. From Jr Infants up:

Primary:
Puppet Show on the Quays in Dublin
Farm
Sonata
Glendalough
Carlingford
Cinema (The Classic in Terenure)

Secondary:
Paris
Coolure House - Retreat Centre
Some observatory up the North

deise08

The heritage park in Wexford.
Kilkenny castle
Muckross House.. That was a long one, from waterford.
Our school must have been on a budget,. I remember one year being brought to a trout farm

Can't think of many more to be honest.

Loafing Oaf

Primary school nearly always a day in Galway, mostly round Leisureland. Think we went to Westport House once.

Secondary school, a day in Dublin in first year IIRC, the zoo the only bit I remember. Weekend in Dun Chaoin a few years on.

Loafing Oaf

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Primary school nearly always a day in Galway, mostly round Leisureland. Think we went to Westport House once.

Secondary school, a day in Dublin in first year IIRC, the zoo the only bit I remember. Weekend in Dun Chaoin a few years on.

All these school ski trips to Italy that brought the plague back sound very alien to me...

freshpopcorn

xzanti wrote: »

Secondary:
Paris

Did ye get Pis**ed?

NSAman

Courtown and Glendalough.... None of this Skiing Trips to Italy and Spa weekends in Prague crap!

Oh yeah and camping in Lough Key Forrest Park which was a frigging disaster as the tents leaked and it P***ed rain....

Purple Mountain

Primary: Athlone for activities on the Shannon. Dublin for the Dail and Wax Museum and another year we went to a local pet farm.

Secondary: I never went abroad, we didn't have the money but I remember in first year going to the crannog in Wexford.

IrishHomer

Isle of Man day trip

ShatterAlan

Primary school went to the Japanese Gardens and The Falconry. The they kicked us off the coach in the Curragh to play football while the teachers went for pints.

1st year in secondary went for 9 days to France, Germany and Switzerland. So overnight sail from Rosslare to Le Havre, a night in Paris, a night in Heidelburg, 4 nights in Interlaken, a night in Paris again and then overnight ferry home. Fcuk me those motorways were boring.

A bunch of us got lifted by the Polizei in Heidelburg for feeding 5p pieces into the vending machines as it registered as a Deutschmark so we were emptying cigarette machines (and getting change back), playing arcade games, etc.

Got served in the duty free on the ferry..age 13. :eek:

cj maxx

Mosney, Bundoran and the zoo.
Secondary school was a 747 Dublin to Shannon and on to bunratty castle. 1st time on a plane, whoo hoo

Purple Mountain

cj maxx wrote: »

Mosney, Bundoran and the zoo.
Secondary school was a 747 Dublin to Shannon and on to bunratty castle. 1st time on a plane, whoo hoo

Shame on your teachers and the carbon footprint!

Sherry Baby

Primary - The Traffic School, the Zoo, the Farm, Blessington Lake, Natural History Museum and Mosney.

Secondary - we went to see a play of Hamlet.

Some of the lads were messing at the back of the bus and the teacher stood up to give out and she fell. She was bruised a bit and she blamed us. I felt she may have exaggerated the situation. Every teacher gave us the cold shoulder for about a week and she wouldnt speak to us and took time off.

She was in her 60s and she came back after a week. She came into the class to talk to us like a martyr (I feel bad saying it, she was a sweet thing really) and she hoisted her skirt up to show us the bruising on her thigh. You couldnt see anything but there was a collective gasp and turning of heads from the lads. Not shocked by the bruising but disgust at her lifting her skirt too high. :pac:

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cj maxx wrote: »

Secondary school was a 747 Dublin to Shannon and on to bunratty castle. 1st time on a plane, whoo hoo

Last year of primary school we were flown from Shannon to Dublin, including a sighting of the lesser spotted Robert Redford in first class department. Upon landing whisked by private bus to the Dáil where Mary O'Rourke gave us the grand tour. I'll admit she was an exemplary host, there was a natural rapport which had more than half of us awake.

Harry Palmr

Three I remember are

Dunmore Caves in Kilkenny
One of the turf cutting zones in Laois (likes something from a post apocalypse movie)
JFK Arboretum in Wexford

cj maxx

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Shame on your teachers and the carbon footprint!

Shame on me. In Limerick I bought my 1st album..
Meatloaf. Hits out of Hell I think. Fcucking Meatloaf.
I'm putting it down to peer pressure and youthful stupidity

Third_Echelon

Primary School are the only ones that I can remember. Don't think we had them in Secondary school. Only thing we had in Secondary School was a student exchange for German class where we lived with the family of a student in Germany for a few weeks and then the student came and lived with us. Was great craic I have to say!

In primary school we went to the Coca-Cola factory tour up on the Naas Road plant. Everyone got the branded pencil case and rulers etc at the end. Ended up with lots of fights afterwards as everyone had the same stuff in the classroom!

There was definitely a trip to Newgrange at one point and then in 5th or 6th class we went to the cinema and the Square Tallaght - was only open a few years at that stage, so was AMAZING!!!

Everyone bought either a Guns 'n' Roses tshirt or a Right Said Fred - 'I'm Too Sexy' tshirt!!! More simple times!

whisky_galore

Fota Island, Cliffs of Moher, Burren. Some cave or other.

We were supposed to go on a European trip but there wasn't enough interest, or money for that.

cj maxx

whisky_galore wrote: »

Fota Island, Cliffs of Moher, Burren. Some cave or other.

We were supposed to go on a European trip but there wasn't enough interest, or money for that.

You reminded me ,we went to the Marble Arch caves in Enniskillen. Not sure if it was school or youth club

Better Than Christ

Newgrange
Knowth
Dowth
Howth (and then a trip on a small boat to Ireland's Eye)
Dublin Zoo
The Viking Adventure Centre
The Enfo environmental information centre
Glendalough
The National Heritage Park in Wexford

diaduit73

Primary school:
Newgrange Farm, The Zoo, Newgrange, Knowth & Dowth. Glendalough, some museum, Armagh Planetarium and A coca-cola bottling place.

Secondary school:
Carlingford

France & Germany. I was only in 2nd year and it was my first time away from home.

An Adventure centre in Galway and An Adventure centre in Donegal (one night we had to sleep in the woods and got bit by insects all night long, it was a nightmare).

Some kind of peace & reconciliation centre in the middle of nowhere.

Dry slope skiing (near Dublin). On the way there the bus went on fire and we had to stand on the side of the road for two hours waiting for a replacement bus.