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Clonmel back in the day.

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  • #32
    RobAMerc
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    Anyone remember Barry's pub and night club ? The club was a bit rough !
    And how about the Minella hotel ?

    I remember also you could drive up mitchel st and park on one side ! ( Narrow st ), its barely wide enough to walk up.

    Nicky's Mayfair cafe and the Harp bar were also on it.

    Binchy's was by far the best toy shop in town.

    Showing my age now I think.

    Pity to say this but Clonmel down has been ruined by back hand taking planners and their landowner mates - there is nothing left to go into the centre for now - you've got Dunnes and M&S on one side of town, a Dunnes and Tesco on another, then a big retail park on the other end, while the town centre is a litany of empty retails stores - Tesco leaving killed the O'Connell Mall etc.


  • #33
    cml387
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    Among the shops in Oakville there was a deli/foodstore that sold a concoction called "Devil's breath" mustard.

    Also "Read and Write" magazine shop,although Mrs. CML remembers it as "Read & Rob" due to the ease of lightfingering goods from the shelves. I hasten to add said Mrs. CML never did.


  • #34
    ReacherCreature
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    DT100 wrote: »
    I often went to Larkins hotel,which is now Fennessy's hotel.Ken and Dom used to play there.Then there was beatty's on Gladstone street,which became Looneys and than Powers.
    I Love Tea wrote: »
    A lot of great places have gone likes the Clonmel Arms,Dick's Deli,Billy Gibb's pub,Mattasa's chipper,Burkes Bacon,The Market Tavern to name but a few
    cml387 wrote: »
    And Wrixon's pub,now a card shop I think.That was a nice spot.

    My 'ol man worked in all of these pubs. :)


  • #35
    DT100
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    Any one remember Saint Marys disco in irish town..Fr. Doherty???..Tommy Mahers shop anyone???? The Oisin cinema?


  • #36
    Reginald P. DuM
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    Tommy Mahers shop!!!! I'm surprised you don't recall that now, judging by your other memories. The Oisinn cinema is completely new to me. Tommy's is still open, just under different ownership. McDermotts on the corner.


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  • #37
    DT100
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    RobAMerc wrote: »
    Anyone remember Barry's pub and night club ? The club was a bit rough !
    And how about the Minella hotel ?

    I remember also you could drive up mitchel st and park on one side ! ( Narrow st ), its barely wide enough to walk up.

    Nicky's Mayfair cafe and the Harp bar were also on it.

    Binchy's was by far the best toy shop in town.

    Showing my age now I think.

    Pity to say this but Clonmel down has been ruined by back hand taking planners and their landowner mates - there is nothing left to go into the centre for now - you've got Dunnes and M&S on one side of town, a Dunnes and Tesco on another, then a big retail park on the other end, while the town centre is a litany of empty retails stores - Tesco leaving killed the O'Connell Mall etc.

    I remember the bus that used to drop people out to the Minella,and the bar b q's in the mid 80's...and the hung over Monday mornings...Ah good days,when the lack of a nights sleep didn't cost a thought.I mentioned the Ritz cinema in an earlier post which used to be where the credit union is now.There was a cinema where Heatons is..The Oisín????.Passing down the western road today,I passed where Doc Callagan used to be,and remembered the times I was waiting in his waiting room,and looking at all the trophies on display....As I went down toward town, I was trying to remember where Tommy Mahers shop was?????


  • #38
    DT100
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    Reginald P. DuM wrote: »
    Tommy Mahers shop!!!! I'm surprised you don't recall that now, judging by your other memories. The Oisinn cinema is completely new to me. Tommy's is still open, just under different ownership. McDermotts on the corner.

    I was thinking that it was there alright...but for some reason I was looking at the corner where the Local is...and wondering ????


  • #39
    Reginald P. DuM
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    Ya know where Melview is I take it!!


  • #40
    DT100
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    LOL...I do..and could tell you some stories of that area...but I wont to protect the innocent....and me....:D


  • #41
    Raggaroo
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    Cooneys at the Main Gaurd !! Ma Brittons by the west Gate !!


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  • #42
    DT100
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    Condons shop..where the town barbers shop is now,across from the tech school.Further down towards the davis road,theres a vet clinic there now afaik...That used to be Bill Purcills bicycle shop..which later became store 7/11...Around the corner there was a little grocery shop called Gleesons,run by Tommy and his wife.I remember you could buy single cigarettes for about 2pence..which were smoked in Bill Purcills yard:D


  • #43
    Raggaroo
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    Nelly Drohans shop near the high school sold single cigarettes and she would give you a light


  • #44
    tippspur
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    .Around the corner there was a little grocery shop called Gleesons,run by Tommy and his wife.I remember you could buy single cigarettes for about 2pence..which were smoked in Bill Purcills yard..Done that would you believe.:D


  • #45
    DT100
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    tippspur wrote: »
    .Around the corner there was a little grocery shop called Gleesons,run by Tommy and his wife.I remember you could buy single cigarettes for about 2pence..which were smoked in Bill Purcills yard..Done that would you believe.:D

    :)..Yeah...about 4 guys smoking the one cig in Bill Purcills yard..What about the upper and lower Gavin's shop.The upper Gavins was near the main guard,the lower Gavins on Parnell street where Bergins shop is now.Going into Gavin's..seeing al those dinky cars...getting a roll of caps for the toy pistol,or a jet ball.:D


  • #46
    Viktor
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    haha I miss Matassa's and Hickeys chippers. I hardlky ever go into the town center anymore, there just arent many of the old places left


  • #47
    DT100
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    Hey ViKtor,did you ever have the belly buster in Hickey's..That was a fine feast.....:)


  • #48
    Raggaroo
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    Sparrow & Simpsons (Clonmel's own version of Fortnum & Masons) on Gladstone St where Boots Chemist is.


  • #49
    DT100
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    tippspur wrote: »
    .Around the corner there was a little grocery shop called Gleesons,run by Tommy and his wife.

    Hey tippspur....did you ever buy a peggy's leg in Tommy Gleesons?...There was a shop just below the army barracks....I think it was called Mrs. Dohertys.What about Imelda's chipper on King street...many's the onion ring I had from there,after a few pints in what was Bremdan Dunne's....It is now the sows ear.


  • #50
    tippspur
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    Sure did get the peggy's leg in Tommys,I know that small shop your talking about just down from the Army barracks,often when I'm stopped at the traffic lights there I look across at that shop and think back.


  • #51
    Ponster
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    tippspur wrote: »
    ...,I know that small shop your talking about just down from the Army barracks,often when I'm stopped at the traffic lights there I look across at that shop and think back.


    I do the same thing myself. We always went to 12:30 mass at St. Peters and Paul's and 'cos my dad was an MP in the army, he'd stop at the south gate on the Davis Road for a chat while I went into the shop for sweets !


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  • #52
    DT100
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    Any one remember the Roller disco in Circles...where the snooker hall is now..Fecking rolling around to the latest toons on skates...tis many the bruise I got:D...Way back before that,it was the Collins hall.


  • #53
    tippspur
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    When I went there it was called the Clubhouse,some memories of that place.my older brothers would have went when it was the Collins Hall.


  • #54
    Ponster
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    DT100 wrote: »
    Any one remember the Roller disco in Circles...where the snooker hall is now...
    tippspur wrote: »
    When I went there it was called the Clubhouse...

    My mother remembers that place. Shouldn't you too be in bed by now before your prostrate starts to act up? :p


  • #55
    DT100
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    tippspur wrote: »
    When I went there it was called the Clubhouse,some memories of that place.my older brothers would have went when it was the Collins Hall.

    Thats right....I couldn't remember...ah the clubhouse.I remember going to see the wolfe tones there when my legs were in short pants....now its me breath:D


  • #56
    DT100
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    Ponster wrote: »
    My mother remembers that place. Shouldn't you too be in bed by now before your prostrate starts to act up? :p

    :D Which reminds me, that where the south tipp free paper is now,used to be Clonmel plumbing


  • #57
    tippspur
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    Ponster wrote: »
    My mother remembers that place. Shouldn't you too be in bed by now before your prostrate starts to act up? :p
    I pulled a lot of women in that place...what's your Mothers name by the way..;)


  • #58
    DT100
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    tippspur wrote: »
    I pulled a lot of women in that place...what's your Mothers name by the way..;)

    :D....Ditto.............;)


  • #59
    blackbetty69
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    tippspur wrote: »
    I pulled a lot of women in that place...what's your Mothers name by the way..;)

    thats a very personal question to be askin..


  • #60
    tippspur
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    blackbetty69 wrote: »
    thats a very personal question to be askin..
    your up late blackbetty;)


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  • #61
    blackbetty69
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    tippspur wrote: »
    your up late blackbetty;)

    well now that im too old for santa, theres no point getin up early in the mornin.. god i miss those days!


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