Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
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.
That form of child abuse leaves long term PTSD called 'The Glenroes'. I don't think we were forced, just that there was nothing else on.
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.
My parents generation used to call the collection agent the 'Jew Man'. He'd come round dinner time on Friday usually and he'd have a big burly lad with him for security as he was collecting cash from nearly every house on the street.
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.
saw them early 2000s or certainly late 90s but yes a dying breed at that stage alright - they were part and parcel of Dublin life
reckon there’s still time for a class action against RTÉ? 😀
Listening to Steely Dan while you waited? 😀
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.
Until they closed off a lot of the roads, used to happen around Croke Park on big match days.
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…
speaking of TV, anyone remember these shows?
Hall's Pictorial Weekly
Cross Country Quiz
Quick Silver
Folio
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 ..
Saturday evening time on UTV/ITV combination of the A-team, Knight Rider, Beverly Hills 90210, Baywatch and gladiators. Then "here's our Graham with a quick reminder" blind date. Switch over to BBC 1 for Casualty (I still give oil tankers a wide berth on the motorway after one episode about 30 years ago)
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
We had one called the providence man. Not sure what it was but sometimes we had to pretend we weren't in lol
When you live in a town with 3 pubs and one disco Dublin looks like a big deal
Pull tabs used to tear right off the can and would be strewn around everywhere.
We used to get Buster and Beano comics. Do kids still get those kinds of comics now or is it all DC and Marvel super hero stuff?
Roy of the Rovers, Tiger and Shoot were what myself and my brother got between us every week. 50p for the lot - robbery!
Was it Thursday they came into the shops? I have a memory of Thursday being the day but not sure why.
I remember those ones, and also one that one through a few incarnations Battle \ Action \ Action Force \ Valiant \ Eagle magazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Picture_Weekly
There was short lived 'sensation' ones like Scream (terrifying to a kid!) and Oink (a childish version of Viz).
The fuq was that about? Bunch of young lads looking out for the common good?
Was chatting about this recently with a colleague at work. He was up at a match with is father and after paying yer man a few bob said half to his Dad about getting a mug of tea somewhere and yer young lad pipes up and says "jaysis I'll get me ma to put the kettle on"
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.
Exactly and the likes of the Eurovision or the rose of tralee were big draws as again there was nothing else on.
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 priest calling in for a visit when the NFL on channel 4 was just starting, only one TV and it had to be turned off for the duration
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)
Speaking of the Beano (used to get nearly every week back in the mid 1980s as a kid, plus the Dandy and Topper sometimes too) - anyone else here a former member of the Dennis The Menace Fan Club? 😁
Lol, yes, I had that wallet and those badges. So cool. 😁
Whizzer & Chips and Buster were my two favourite comics as a kid. I still have a 1989 Bash Street Kids annual at my parents house also.
