Anyone else here remeber Mosney?

Wabbit Ears · 07-07-2013 10:17PM

I walked through mosnia with a large and slightly psychotic german shepard recently. I was a bit lost. Boy did I get in trouble I tell you, the camp commandant was not happy one bit!!!

Jonny7 · 07-07-2013 10:22PM

callaway92 wrote: »

Solid stealing from the previous Mosney thread on the exact same topic

ha, we all called it Mosnia back then, popular name

like Abrakestabra

MadsL · 07-07-2013 10:34PM

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

It holds immigrants now.

Umm...I don't even...*sigh*

Mr.Prodston · 07-07-2013 10:36PM

I thought you said Money

07-07-2013 10:40PM

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

I walked through mosnia with a large and slightly psychotic german shepard recently. I was a bit lost. Boy did I get in trouble I tell you, the camp commandant was not happy one bit!!!

Rumours abound it is due to reopen on 2015 as a Butlins, any truth to that I wonder?

jjbrien · 07-07-2013 10:57PM

Fieldog wrote: »

Rumours abound it is due to reopen on 2015 as a Butlins, any truth to that I wonder?

I hope it is id love to share some of my childhood with my kids. They would need to revamp it a bit.

Sulla Felix · 07-07-2013 11:36PM

Lumbo wrote: »

Sasha & Digweed?

Yep!

Sky King · 07-07-2013 11:38PM

There is an *epic* thread on Mosney in AH already. One of the boardsies shared loads of photos and stories from when he worked there, look it up, it's a great thread.

Captain Slow IRL · 08-07-2013 12:43AM

Homelands Ireland 1999

Epic

mikemac1 · 08-07-2013 01:12AM

People went down a slide in the swimming pool and went to some underground area.

But I was never down there and never knew where they went

Celly Smunt · 08-07-2013 01:14AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

People went down a slide in the swimming pool and went to some underground area.

But I was never down there and never knew where they went

As far as i know they came out the other end as asylum seekers.

Oops! · 08-07-2013 01:32AM

I remember watching Ray Houghton score "that" goal against the Italians at the world cup USA 94 on the big screen in the hall, the place went mental..... I was only a chap.

Ah the memorys..... Oh ya and the big mushrooms and the slide in the pool.

MadsL · 08-07-2013 02:21AM

Oops! wrote: »

I was only a chap.

What are you now??

Oops! · 08-07-2013 02:23AM

19 years old than i was that summer....

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 08-07-2013 07:52AM

I got lost on a school tour here in first class. I wandered off solo and ended up over by the church where my teacher found me.

Stayed there for a few days one summer, we were really far away from the actual amusements and stuff, was it the R block? And on the first night some weirdo followed us back and wouldn't leave the chalet. I'm sure there's more to that story I just don't remember it, my mother was spooked for the rest of the stay there ha. That was the most memorable thing about the stay lol.

Then some god awful creepy looking old person singing guy dressed in showband clothes was playing there one night.
Don't remember being at the pool but remember seeing legs dangling in the restaurant.

First interaction with a boy there too. He held my hand. We were 8.

club goldgrain · 08-07-2013 08:06AM

F**K me, i think they call it bultins when i was there...............old

RayCon · 08-07-2013 08:06AM

Was there for a day trip once when I was a kid .... thought it was a dump.

enda1 · 08-07-2013 07:39PM

How did it compare to Trabolgan?
I went there once as a 6 year old or so.

I seem to remember the crazy golf being great (it probably wasn't)

I am pie · 08-07-2013 07:54PM

Had a day trip from Belfast to Mosney in the late 80s (possibly 88 or 89). At that stage Belfast was a fairly intimidating place to be at times. The army were on the streets and police check points were all too common. The nightly news could be scary enough for a young school kid and you had to pick your walking route home from school carefully enough to avoid a confrontation.

I remember thinking on the train on the way home after seeing Mosney that maybe Belfast was paradise after all. Rotten dump!

jjbrien · 08-07-2013 08:01PM

I am pie wrote: »

Had a day trip from Belfast to Mosney in the late 80s (possibly 88 or 89). At that stage Belfast was a fairly intimidating place to be at times. The army were on the streets and police check points were all too common. The nightly news could be scary enough for a young school kid and you had to pick your walking route home from school carefully enough to avoid a confrontation.

I remember thinking on the train on the way home after seeing Mosney that maybe Belfast was paradise after all. Rotten dump!

They did do it up in the 90's but the Amusements stayed the same. I remember the gokarts they used to go mad if you tried to bump into someone else. Still the place was no Alton Towers. If they had just spent money on it..... it could have been the Alton Towers of Ireland

suicide_circus · 08-07-2013 08:04PM

i went to a star trek exhibition in mosney, needless to say there was no shifting involved

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Exhibition

Agricola · 08-07-2013 08:05PM

My memories of mosney are jumping into the deepend of the pool (despite not being able to swim) and rescuing myself by remembering where the ladder was. The young fella impersonating a lifeguard, looked like he'd rather I drown!

Quasar the laser tag game.....

And getting harrassed by 2 randy 10/11 year old girls all the way home on the bus. Scared the life out of a shy country boy.......

.....even if I was 23 :pac:

Nermal · 08-07-2013 08:25PM

RayCon wrote: »

Was there for a day trip once when I was a kid .... thought it was a dump.

Me too, I remember pitying the people who holidayed there.

darkslider · 27-09-2013 01:08PM

Went to Mosney on a school tour in fifth class so I guess I was 11 or 12. Best school tour ever - leaving lads on the island in the middle of the lake, mooning people though the glass walls of the swimming pool, shoveling a fortune into the arcades....soggy chips soaked in vinegar, salt and ketchup.
The slide in the pool that went underneath the pool was 'the swamp ride' or something.... it was like a dragons head sticking out of the pool, I remember this because when you slid down it there'd be a bunch of lads waiting for you at the end to dispense digs.

I'm not living a million miles away from the place now and on occasion walk my dogs around the pitches. I've heard the rumours about it being re-opened, but looking at the place I think it'd need to be flattened and built from scratch. It looks like a concentration camp and a lot of the buildings are probably not up to modern safety standards. All the roofs are asbestos so there would be massive cost involved in getting all that disposed of. It's got potential, no doubt. Hell... it even has a train station, but it'd require a shed load of money to do it right. Aside from that, the current owners are making a fortune from the state for providing it as what is effectively a refugee camp.

Irish people are terribly nostalgic. We forget that Mosney closed as a holiday destination because people weren't going there anymore and it wasn't making money. If it re-opened it would never live up to expectations, it would never be 'the same'. People would go there to let their kids experience what they did on holidays and spend their time saying 'O it was better when.....' or 'I remember when this was much better...'
The other major difference is that the world is a much smaller place than it was when Mosney was at the peak of it's powers.
I reckon it's probably best to leave mosney where it belongs, in the past with our rose-tinted memories of simpler, happier times, hotter summers and getting more value for money.

Anyone else here remeber Mosney?

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