Do you ever think of a childhood buddy?

23-10-2007 11:29PM

At the end of 2005 I met a girl I used to go to primary school with. At the time we had a laugh like kids do, holding hands in the schoolyard and stuff (only got reminded of that when her parents slagged us lol). And just last week I was browsing through Bebo looking for people from Ballyfermot to see if anyone jogged my memory. And there she was, she's now engaged! Aww.

Unfortunately I also came across the profiles of some blokes who used to make my school life a living hell.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 23-10-2007 11:49PM

stonegroove wrote: »

I was seven when we moved out of Ballymun, and yes I do remember "FALLING" off the bus shelter,

Nice to see that people are still thinking about David,

My Mam & Dad moved to Meath a couple of years back and are doing fine" I have a little sister "NICOLA 26" who has a Daughter and are both living in Cavan
Paula is married with two boys and living in Navan,
I am with living with my girlfriend & Our son in Blanch and everybody is doing fine.

Blackhorse Slim sent me the link about two weeks ago (thanks man)
But I have just checked it out now
It would have been David's 40th Birthday on the 14th of this Month (think of & miss him everyday)

I am new to this site & I just registered to post this comment.
Amazingly, I remember quiet a lot about Ballymun,

You must be Martin?
Hope everything is good with you and the family

Wow, this is pretty amazing. I'll drop you a PM with my email addy.

Of course I never thought that it would have been Davids 40th this year, dumbass that I am!.

Small world ain't it, and I'll fill you in on the bus shelter thing sometime now, lol... Needless to say we were all playing on it, and we convinced you that you'd fallen (in truth it was an accident) but being kids everyone was terrified of getting into trouble!.

Fook, this has really blown me away!.

I'll be in touch via a PM & Email soon. In the mean time please pass on my regards to your family.

Oh, and yes I'm Martin, and here's me now (I've grown up a little)

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

BUt just a little

Mr.Nice Guy · 24-10-2007 12:53AM

I've often wondered what happened to a girl I was friends with when I was in junior and senior infants in St Peter's in Phibsboro. Her name was Niamh and she'd red hair. There's a great school photo of me and her which I still have to this day and I have the grumpiest face imaginable because I was embarrassed to have my picture taken with a girl.

Would be cool to run into her but I'd probably struggle to recognise her since she'd be grown up now.

Blush_01 · 24-10-2007 02:44AM

A friend from primary school died during the summer. When I came home for his funeral, I got sunburnt though it was raining. He'd have fcuking loved that. He was the best guy. He ran a shop in the primary school, selling sweets for twice the price he'd paid for them in the shop at lunchtime, until he was caught by the teacher. The two of us messed around with cigarettes behind the bike shed when we were about 9 or 10 but couldn't get the lighter to spark. Just stupid kids stuff. His sister died 10 years ago last weekend and I was at her anniversary mass. I went to a tiny primary school, only 32 pupils at most over the 8 years I spent there. I babysit the kids of people I went to primary school with occasionally.

My brother is best friends with my best friend from pre-school's little brother, they went to the same secondary school. It's a small world!

I miss people from secondary school, but I see lots of them around too. There are a few I'm very sorry to have lost touch with, like Laura Quish. I broke my foot one night in a nightclub and she and her boyfriend were the only ones who'd help me while other people just stepped over me. There are other people I sort-of knew who I see out, but I haven't talked to them for half a decade, and I've nothing to say to them now. It's odd. I sometimes wonder where other people ended up too. There was one girl I hung around with in first and second year, but she left school before she was 16 to look after her brothers and sisters. Last I heard she had got into trouble with some of the local drug dealers where she lived. Sad, but such is life. I think it's only natural to wonder who the people you once knew went on to become.

Nevyn · 24-10-2007 08:31AM

Yes and then for the most part I am glad i dont' see them.

faceman · 24-10-2007 08:36AM

ive a good story about this topic. Im 30 now and i had a good friend (gary) in my kiddie years and teens but we lost contact about 10 years ago. (We moved to different areas, no email address or contact numbers)

not long after i joined boards i posted a story in paranormal about a spooky experience that i had where gary was coincidently there when we were about 19.

turns out gary is a boards member! He posted a reply to the topic and we're back in touch since then! Yay for boards!

Beer is Life · 24-10-2007 11:04AM

I found an old photo album the other day stuffed down behind a dresser I was moving in my sisters room. In it were old pictures of me and my old friends from the estate I grew up on. I found it upsetting to look at them. David Murphy and Sean Breenan were my best friends from the estate. David moved away when I was about 16. He still went to the same school but he stopped talking to us. Met him twice since then in the pub but its like we never knew each other which is ****ed up considering how close we used to be. I moved away when I was 18 and lost contact with Sean, but I wasnt really hanging around with him much by then anyway. Met him in the pub a few times too but I dont know what to say to him. I guess we were just friends of convenience because we lived so close, but id love to know them now like I used to. I think about them often.

I had a few friends from secondary school Ive lost contact with, Eoin Keenan and Dermot Grace. Id love to see either of them again and often think of what became of those two carry-ons.

oneeyedsnake · 24-10-2007 12:07PM

Thaedydal wrote: »

Yes and then for the most part I am glad i dont' see them.

Why is that?Do you think you were too good for them or something?

popebenny16 · 24-10-2007 12:35PM

great thread, logged onto that lost friends link and saw a few from the old school including a girl I had a big crush for in 5th class... and, amazingly a mate who introduced me to porn and 2000AD but who left for Scotland when times got ****ty around '85.

Another co-incidence, Mairt, is that I'm from Balcurris Road as well!!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 24-10-2007 02:19PM

popebenny16 wrote: »

Another co-incidence, Mairt, is that I'm from Balcurris Road as well!!

Damn!.. What end?.

And reading from your post we're around the same age.

Rhiannon14 · 24-10-2007 02:41PM

And why is it that your best childhood friends seem to be the only ones on the planet without Facebook, etc? *sigh* If anyone finds Aimee Boulanger or Elizabeth Morette, let me know-hehe.

cance · 24-10-2007 03:49PM

i often think of a few friends from secondary school. my neighbourhood friends are out of my life by choice.

again, i'd probably have nothing to say to them, there was a class reunion recently but couldnt face seeing half the fúckin scangers talk about their brat children.

ruskin · 24-10-2007 07:05PM

Ive lost touch with the vast majority of all my primary and secondary school friends. Incidently, a few weeks ago, I passed one of them in the street and all we said to each other was "Hello, hows it going?", and then walked on. I was great friends with this guy in primary school and secondary. How does that happen, that people you knew so well and had so many laughs with at one time in your life, just become faces in the street? How come after so many years of no contact people cant seem to rebuild any real form of friendship? That seems sad to me. I just graduated from college a few weeks ago. I had a great class, and although some of us agreed to meet up again at christmas and others, I know that our meetings will become scarcer and scarcer until the people who are now my great friends, will turn into virtual strangers. Life is sad like that

Jigsaw · 24-10-2007 07:11PM

I am still friendly or at least still know all my childhood friends from, say 5 years old when you first start to have friends through to 11 years old. I also still have all my friends from 16 through to present day.

Thing is, I went to a different school from the age of 11 to 16 and it was not in my home town. I had some real good friends there and often I have had a thorough browse on Facebook, Bebo and Myspace to see if I can find them but rarely have much luck. Doesn't bother me too much now but used to kinda bother me.

popebenny16 · 26-10-2007 12:40PM

Mairt wrote: »

Damn!.. What end?.

And reading from your post we're around the same age.

last block, beside St. Joseph's.

stonegroove · 26-10-2007 10:20PM

Mairt wrote: »

Wow, this is pretty amazing. I'll drop you a PM with my email addy.

Of course I never thought that it would have been Davids 40th this year, dumbass that I am!.

Small world ain't it, and I'll fill you in on the bus shelter thing sometime now, lol... Needless to say we were all playing on it, and we convinced you that you'd fallen (in truth it was an accident) but being kids everyone was terrified of getting into trouble!.

Fook, this has really blown me away!.

I'll be in touch via a PM & Email soon. In the mean time please pass on my regards to your family.

Oh, and yes I'm Martin, and here's me now (I've grown up a little)

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

BUt just a little

will do!
looks like you are lookin after yourself,

yeh send me a pm, and I will give my bebo & e-mail address

talk soon

Terry · 26-10-2007 10:35PM

I want your bebo and e-mail address.

Hypnotoad · 27-10-2007 02:01AM

Beer is Life wrote: »

I found an old photo album the other day stuffed down behind a dresser I was moving in my sisters room. In it were old pictures of me and my old friends from the estate I grew up on. I found it upsetting to look at them. David Murphy and Sean Breenan were my best friends from the estate. David moved away when I was about 16. He still went to the same school but he stopped talking to us. Met him twice since then in the pub but its like we never knew each other which is ****ed up considering how close we used to be. I moved away when I was 18 and lost contact with Sean, but I wasnt really hanging around with him much by then anyway. Met him in the pub a few times too but I dont know what to say to him. I guess we were just friends of convenience because we lived so close, but id love to know them now like I used to. I think about them often.

I had a few friends from secondary school Ive lost contact with, Eoin Keenan and Dermot Grace. Id love to see either of them again and often think of what became of those two carry-ons.

What secondary did you go to?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 27-10-2007 11:15PM

popebenny16 wrote: »

last block, beside St. Joseph's.

Wow!.

I hung around there during the early 80's!.

Some names I remember from those blocks are 'Linda Douglas', 'Linda Wright', 'Noel (Skinner from Sheriff St) Rooney', 'Jerry Palmer', Patrick (Padser) O'Connor'.

Some great days up there, knacker drinking in the sheds, drinking and driving the ol' DT175's like crazy on 'the seven pitches'.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 27-10-2007 11:16PM

stonegroove wrote: »

will do!
looks like you are lookin after yourself,

yeh send me a pm, and I will give my bebo & e-mail address

talk soon

Ok PM'd you my details, looking forward to hearing from you.

LadyE · 27-10-2007 11:26PM

This is all so sweet

Bluebluesky · 13-02-2009 01:28PM

flanzer wrote: »

Every Christmas our family usually take out old photos and reminiss. Last year I found a photo of my 6th birthday and still know most of the kids at it. I know that one of the lads was and probably still is a heroin dealer and addict and has done time in prison for burglary and smugging drugs from the UK, while I know that one of the lads is training to be a solicitor and 2 girls
have gone onto be doctors. How easy it is to take the wrong roads in life!

There was one girl though who I was smitten over, Pamela Sarsfield. I was an outgoing child in the day but remember shítting myself giving her the invitation! She moved down the country shortly afterwards and never heard from her again and often wonder where abouts in the world she is today?

Just came accross this thread and my goodness! Well I can tell you that Pamela Sarsfield moved to a place in Co. Louth called Termonfeckin in about 1985. She has lived there ever since and the last I heard is that she got married last year and still lives in the village!

flanzer · 13-02-2009 01:40PM

Bluebluesky wrote: »

Just came accross this thread and my goodness! Well I can tell you that Pamela Sarsfield moved to a place in Co. Louth called Termonfeckin in about 1985. She has lived there ever since and the last I heard is that she got married last year and still lives in the village!

Gettaway!!...originally from Bayside was she? Is she still a looker?! Married now? My chances have gone

:D.

Although I'm happy enough with my partner and 4 month old daughter! Must try look her up on Facebook!

Bluebluesky · 13-02-2009 01:44PM

I mean it, the very same girl! I have not laid eyes on her in about 15 years! I was a childhood friend of hers but lost touch. Married now for sure.

I have tried to look her up on Facebook and Bebo but she is not on either!!!

Small world eh!!!

flanzer · 13-02-2009 01:51PM

Still in shock I am! Found some info on her here!

http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/local-notes/around-the-villages-1207871.html

Married in September 2007.

I remember I got invited to her birthday party in the Old Shieling in Raheny and thought all my birthdays had come at once! Put on my best clobber, gelled back my hair and got my groove on! Still couldn't woo her!

I suppose as a 6 year old, I still had a lot to learn!

Craft25 · 13-02-2009 01:51PM

Ah yeah ders loads, but I wouldnt name names..

Theres one girl T, who i used to 'get off with' at a youth disco, she kissed like a goldfish and bit the lips off me(i think she had train track braces). She got knocked down and killed in her prime. I didn't really know her that well but it was 2 or 3 yrs after we used to meet & i always remember the day before she died she came up to me in a real jolly mood in school. She had a lovely smile and the priest said somethin lovely about her smile lighting up heaven.

P was one of the 'hard' lads in primary & all through secondary school but really he had a heart of gold. He went on heroin very young when he was hanging around with the 'big lads', whenever anyone used to try and start on me he would row straight in & take my side. I always used to see him around the town and talk for a few minutes, talk about old memories & how alot of people thought alot of him & wished he'd get off. He would real optomistic for a few mins. I was away travelling when i phoned home another mate told me he'd been found somewhere in town, other junkies had taken his clothes.. it was real sad bein away when it happened, i think about his mam alot and would like to tell her that he had a good influence on me & i always remember him fondly, just so she doesn't think it was all a total waste.

tman · 13-02-2009 01:55PM

Aye, I have my best friend from the age of 0-7 on facebook, but have never really made the effort to talk to him... Just feels weird at this stage, we both moved on and got on with our lives...

Bluebluesky · 13-02-2009 02:01PM

flanzer wrote: »

Still in shock I am! Found some info on her here!

http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/local-notes/around-the-villages-1207871.html

Married in September 2007.

I remember I got invited to her birthday party in the Old Shieling in Raheny and thought all my birthdays had come at once! Put on my best clobber, gelled back my hair and got my groove on! Still couldn't woo her! I suppose as a 6 year old, I still had a lot to learn!

Ha ha I just went in and saw the same thing! Too funny! Bless you are still in shock

I made my first communion with her and we were friends untill I moved away, we stayed in contact for many years but then fell out of touch.

Awe her 6th birthday! I was at her 7th, that's mad. She had a magician and I loved it! Wierd talking about her on here. I did make contact with herlast summer and got a mobile number from her, we text a few times and then I called her once or twice but she never returned my call......

flanzer · 13-02-2009 05:16PM

Bluebluesky wrote: »

Awe her 6th birthday! I was at her 7th, that's mad. She had a magician and I loved it! Wierd talking about her on here. I did make contact with herlast summer and got a mobile number from her, we text a few times and then I called her once or twice but she never returned my call......

Her folks must have been a bit well-to-do!!...They had a clown at the party I was at, making all sorts of animals with those twisty balloons! I was lucky to get a meal out of McDs for my birthday off my folks!

I can rest at ease now I know she's alive and well in Termonfeckin. I'm up there in the next few weeks playing Seapoint Golf Club, I might try and look her up!

Latchy · 13-02-2009 05:21PM

I bumped into a childhood friend not so long ago but he'd all growed up .

That's what I hate about getting older , nothing or nobody stays the same

Do you ever think of a childhood buddy?

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