**** things about the 70s,80s,90s...that don't happen now!

Still around, especially near Croke Park on match days - usually younger now and wear hi-vizes to look official, again just looking for money for what is free parking spaces. Disappear as soon as all spaces full, but often there's the worry that if you don't pay, your car will be scratched or wing mirror gone when you get back.

Being forced to sit in front of Glenroe every Sunday when in primary school. It felt like the weekend was officially over and the dread of school the next morning set in.

Door to door collection agents, e.g. a guy calling to the house once a month on a certain afternoon or evening to collect the premiums for an insurance policy, marking it down as paid in your policy book.

"Pools panels" for the Football Pools, a panel of ex footballers and others associated with the game who would decide the result of a postponed \ abandoned game so there's be a complete set of Pools results. More usually called upon in Winter in the days before undersoil heating, as pitches turned to mud with some vestiges of grass on the wings.

Auld lad who lives next door to me was a door to door insurance collector. Voice is blown out from a lifetime of shouting at non-payers.

The door to door rates/rents collectors for councils had a worse job, suspect they got shouted at even more often. Used to keep the electoral register bang up to date though.

reckon there’s still time for a class action against RTÉ? 😀

People driving up the north to buy groceries or other items like cigarettes as many things were alot cheaper across the border .

If you live near enough to the border it's still worth doing, but only for stocking up on stuff, not a "milk and a pack of digestives" run.

Sports Stadium on Rte and Grandstand on BBC for the sport, looking back they were good programmes with a great mix of different events from horse racing, live matches, gymnastics, athletics, rugby, fencing, ping pong … you name it … something for the diehard to the casual observer…

Having to dodge the odd aqualung on the way home from school.

Was born in 63, lived on Charlemont Street, 2 doors up from the old Carroll's Building,, And there always seemed to be a few hanging around outside my school.. or sitting on a park bench along the canal ..

Plates that exploded into thousands of shards because somebody took it out of the oven and then put it somewhere cool. Happened twice that i remember as a kid.

And cups and plates with the gold rim that you couldn't microwave because the metal paint would cause huge blue sparks

When you live in a town with 3 pubs and one disco Dublin looks like a big deal

Roy of the Rovers, Tiger and Shoot were what myself and my brother got between us every week. 50p for the lot - robbery!

The fuq was that about? Bunch of young lads looking out for the common good?

Ah in fairness for a lot of us it may not have been the centre of the universe but it was the end of known space. If one was looking for anything niche/specialist you'd be told there might but a place up in Dublin that'd have that or such and such in Dublin would be yer best bet.

Ha, my next door neighbour actually won a car in that draw years ago, a red Toyota Starlet that lasted him about 20 years.

Actually in the spirit of this thread, cars that will last 20 years with minimal maintenance, especially Toyota's of the late 90's

The Beano is still around, I think it's probably the just about the only D.C. Thomson printed comic left? The Dandy is gone and I think a lot of the 'girls' comics have disappeared.

Odd that there was never an Irish printed comic that took off (as opposed to a graphic novel or strip)