The Colourful Characters of Waterford

thewhale · 23-04-2011 03:01PM #1

Hello everyone, this is my first post to Boards :-) Ive just been reading over previous posts and was pondering on the characters that have graced these streets in the past, and such an abundance of characters there 'have been', but what i'm trying to think of the characters 'that are'... I'm sure this town has an abunance of them, and i am not talking about the obvious men (and occaisional women) that are down on there luck and taken to the drink, im talking about those colourful characters that maybe have been working in the same place for 40 years or have the same routine everyday or just have tall tales to tell, there is no stereotype on these people, they are who they are. They are the characters that are the backbone of this beautiful city. Forgive me if this has been done before, but if not give them a mention and maybe tell a story, their story, or your story... or anything at all, use it as a celebration of the people of Waterford.

seanybiker · 23-04-2011 03:58PM

Is mocky dower still scaring kids into school?
That other chap with the scraggly hair that seems to be in lisduggan shopping centre all the time. Really sound chap.

jimbojazz · 23-04-2011 04:08PM

seanybiker wrote: »

Is mocky dower still scaring kids into school?
That other chap with the scraggly hair that seems to be in lisduggan shopping centre all the time. Really sound chap.

Think he died last November.

seanybiker · 23-04-2011 04:23PM

jimbojazz wrote: »

Think he died last November.

He was real? :-o

jimbojazz · 23-04-2011 04:29PM

seanybiker wrote: »

He was real? :-o

Wasn't he the school inspector

Tragamin2k2 · 23-04-2011 04:57PM

seanybiker wrote: »

Is mocky dower still scaring kids into school?
That other chap with the scraggly hair that seems to be in lisduggan shopping centre all the time. Really sound chap.

Johnny Tierney? also I thought mocky was a scare tactic meself :P

marlin vs · 23-04-2011 04:57PM

jimbojazz wrote: »

Wasn't he the school inspector

He sure was, I was caught by him,but he was a fair man.

seanybiker · 23-04-2011 05:11PM

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

Johnny Tierney? also I thought mocky was a scare tactic meself :P

Yeah Johnny. He's always there. Lovely fella.

marlin vs · 23-04-2011 08:53PM

seanybiker wrote: »

Yeah Johnny. He's always there. Lovely fella.

His son is lovely too,:rolleyes:

seanybiker · 23-04-2011 09:17PM

marlin vs wrote: »

His son is lovely too,:rolleyes:

Don't know him

marlin vs · 24-04-2011 05:26AM

seanybiker wrote: »

Don't know him

You do Seany,he follow's the hunt.

gscully · 25-04-2011 08:31AM

The guy with the long scraggy grey hair that walks around town, hands behind his back. Usually wears a beige trenchcoat. I've heard he's called 'Sausages' as he'll chase you if you shout that at him. Anyone know if that's true?

Ostrom · 25-04-2011 12:48PM

Of my time - Elvis, Monica, and the guy dressed in a Beret with a mirror obsession

25-04-2011 01:35PM

efla wrote: »

Of my time - Elvis, Monica, and the guy dressed in a Beret with a mirror obsession

The guy with the beret i think was called vogel,he lived out arond bunmahon way

SUNGOD · 25-04-2011 02:00PM

"how do"..cause thats what he will say to you, there are youtube clips of him shouting "how do"

years ago there was harry miller and fella called cashin they were allways together and were just known as "cashin & miller"

harry miller had grey hair and a long grey beard and someone said "harry would you do santa clause for christmas" he replied " i would if you hold him down":D

in more recent times we had the legends known as "multivan" and "newportwex" whose intellect is only surpassed by their popularity

ziedth · 25-04-2011 02:11PM

1967 wrote: »

The guy with the beret i think was called vogel,he lived out arond bunmahon way

Michael "Vousen" (Spelling?) was the chaps name. He got knocked down just outside Kill a few years ago. A pure gent of a man. I chatted to him many times. We could never work out was he a raving looney or just a genius who had the wires crossed in his head. He used to come out with some stuff like look at the sun and know the time and rough date.

I could tell ya some stories.

Edit: I genuinely miss multivan, had I been a mod at the time he never would have been banned

Ostrom · 25-04-2011 02:57PM

Cashin was Elvis, wasn't he? Is he still alive?

MitchKoobski · 25-04-2011 03:56PM

I'd even go so far as to count some people working in shops and pubs and characters of Waterford. I find that I'll be wandering around town and actually recognise someone as "Ah he works in Geoffs" or something.

Tom, the barman and proprietor for Grimes, being my favourite one.

ziedth · 25-04-2011 04:00PM

God ya, there is a guy I think he used to be manager in Michael Guineys who I would literally without fail see somewhere in town about once a month. Haven't seen him in a long time as it happens.

kryogen · 25-04-2011 04:19PM

The town is blessed with some great characters alright

From publicans like Tom in Grimes and Flash in Revolution to the less fortunate such as How do and Toddy, there are plenty of people with stories to tell about the many crazy inhabitants of Waterford City

jayboi · 25-04-2011 04:57PM

What about seanybiker?

MitchKoobski · 25-04-2011 05:07PM

jayboi wrote: »

What about seanybiker?

Never heard of him, sounds dodgy.

jayboi · 25-04-2011 05:48PM

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Never heard of him, sounds dodgy.

Hes a kitten really you'd often see him on his push bike going around the cleaboy.

seanybiker · 25-04-2011 07:07PM

jayboi wrote: »

Hes a kitten really you'd often see him on his push bike going around the cleaboy.

Hahaha I cycled a push bike a few weeks ago and had to go to bed. Mme lungs nearly fell out

gscully · 25-04-2011 09:10PM

efla wrote: »

Of my time - Elvis, Monica, and the guy dressed in a Beret with a mirror obsession

Rick Whelan? Yeah, he loves himself

seanybiker · 25-04-2011 10:49PM

What about that sully fella. Never met him bit heard he walks around with a hammer. *giggles like a school girl and runs*

Flyin Irishman · 26-04-2011 12:05AM

ziedth wrote: »

God ya, there is a guy I think he used to be manager in Michael Guineys who I would literally without fail see somewhere in town about once a month. Haven't seen him in a long time as it happens.

Was that an elderly guy, with grey hair?

ziedth · 26-04-2011 07:40AM

Flyin Irishman wrote: »

Was that an elderly guy, with grey hair?

No but maybe he wasn't the manager though. What happened is years ago I saw him and I couldn't get over how much he looks like a chap I know really like twins. It wasn't that I started noticing a random guy around town

mecco · 26-04-2011 08:45AM

ziedth wrote: »

No but maybe he wasn't the manager though. What happened is years ago I saw him and I couldn't get over how much he looks like a chap I know really like twins. It wasn't that I started noticing a random guy around town

Good recovery, don't think anybody noticed

Partizan · 27-04-2011 10:01AM

There are some mad characters around alright but none are as legendary as Tawdy Morrissey. I see How-do around every now and then when I'm back in Waterford.

From my childhood I remember:

Joey LeBlanc and his mother Mazy
Martin Hunt (your man with the hurley)
Mad Tex (he had a dog and a toy horse mounted into the handle bars of his bike)
Mally Boo - mad wan from Johns Park
Ita Butler
Mary 7up
3 Dogs Keating
Bum O'Keeffe
Shammy Kavanagh (used to hang around Railway Square)
Johnny Delacato
Tony Weldon (DJ on WLR)

alot of them no longer with us.

Flyin Irishman · 27-04-2011 10:10AM

Shammy was something else allright! I heard just after he died that he grew up in the caretakers house in the peoples park, its a cafe or something now.

Does the old brown and white dog that chases his tennis ball around red square count as a colourful character?

The Colourful Characters of Waterford

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