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  • #32
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    There was one thing where a Dinny had a female greyhound andFR. Devereux had a male terrier, and the greyhound got pregnant. They stand there looking at the greyhound wondering how the terrier managed it. Dinny said 'Maybe he was standing on a bucket'.

    One good moment in umpteen years.


  • #33
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    Didn't Dinny go to confession as a way of telling Fr Devereux what had happened? And as penance he gave him something like 50 rosaries to say :D


  • #34
    Pretty_Pistol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Pretty_Pistol


    Was Darina Allens cooking show after the news on a Sunday or was that on a weekday night?


  • #35
    Gunga Din
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Gunga Din


    jester77 wrote: »
    Best thing about Sunday night was when Theresa Lowe had that quiz show on just before Glenroe... boy did she get the blood flowing in many a young lad back then!!

    the prizes on that "Where in the World" were utter sh**e


  • #36
    jacknife
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭jacknife


    InchicoreDude wrote: »
    I wonder what was on after Glenroe in those days (The news obviously but after the news). Everybody seems to have gone to bed strraight after Glenroe. Our parents were keeping some glorious secret!

    I remember the Sandy Kelly show was on after Glenroe in the 90's


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  • #37
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    I remember 'Bracken'. Actually I remember 'The Riordans', but I'm taking tablets.


  • #38
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Anyone remember The Riordans on the radio - lasted until 1985.

    What was on after Glenroe?

    The Nine O'Clock News. :)


  • #39
    Amy33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Amy33


    Dick Moran was my first ever crush.


  • #40
    Ann22
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I remember it well back in the time when Mary was married to Michael and was having an affair with big Dick Moran.....she was beaten black and blue and we were all guessing who did it. Turn's out auld Michael did it. Then many years later when she was married to Dick..he went off and started shagging Terry Killeen.

    Remember Biddy with the perm, back when she was dying about Miley and he fancied Carol....as did Matt Moran who went on to bigger and better things in 'Rawhead Rex'(anyone else remember that?:D).

    Yeah back then there was fcuk all else on....'Spitting Image' was on after it..I got to stay up to watch it even though I couldn't understand the half of it.


  • #41
    Asphyxia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    Why did it get cancelled? I still remember the theme tune.:D


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  • #42
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Ann22 wrote: »
    I remember it well back in the time when Mary was married to Michael and was having an affair with big Dick Moran.....she was beaten black and blue and we were all guessing who did it. Turn's out auld Michael did it. Then many years later when she was married to Dick..he went off and started shagging Terry Killeen.

    I remember that episode vividly - so clear that I know it was episode 9 of the first series - which means it was broadcast in November 1983.

    Mary lying on the floor of the house covered in bruises. My mother thought she was dead. "Murdered" she said to my father.

    Then the credits came and it was time for bed.


  • #43
    van der vart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭van der vart


    Harbour Hotel was on the radio everyday, my ma and da used to go out every Sun night straight after Glenroe


  • #44
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Eurgh. hated that show primarily on the fact that it was like a huge bell ringing in the end of the weekend.

    Only thing I remember from that show was when Mary clocked Dick across the head with the fire poke and knocked him clean out :D


  • #45
    remembering
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭remembering


    soo funny!! same here though!! :O)
    that made me laugh!!


  • #46
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    I remember that episode vividly - so clear that I know it was episode 9 of the first series - which means it was broadcast in November 1983.

    Mary lying on the floor of the house covered in bruises. My mother thought she was dead. "Murdered" she said to my father.

    Then the credits came and it was time for bed.

    My childhood memories of this might be foggy on this but I seem to recall watching eagerly the following week to see what happened next and it was a big anti-climax. Mary was going about her business as usual though no doubt covered in bruises. I was hoping for some sort of hullabaloo when she was on the floor


  • #47
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Firetrap wrote: »
    My childhood memories of this might be foggy on this but I seem to recall watching eagerly the following week to see what happened next and it was a big anti-climax. Mary was going about her business as usual though no doubt covered in bruises. I was hoping for some sort of hullabaloo when she was on the floor

    spot on! Was expecting her to be hospitalised at best - and she seemed fine the following week...


  • #48
    CiaraMG21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭CiaraMG21


    I used to beg my mam to be allowed to stay up to watch it on Sunday nights. It wasnt because I loved it or even liked it, it was just so I could have an extra half an hour or so up on a Sunday night before school the next day haha!


  • #49
    Kace Nervous Stereoscope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭ Kace Nervous Stereoscope


    efb wrote: »
    Dallas

    DA, DA DA, DA DA DA DA DA DA, DA DA DA DA DA DA....


  • #50
    aisog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭aisog


    bradlente wrote: »
    I used to hate it cos it was time for bed afterwards.......:(

    Same in my house!!I used to love Blackie!


  • #51
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    spurious wrote: »
    I remember 'Bracken'. Actually I remember 'The Riordans', but I'm taking tablets.
    i remember watching repeats of
    this on tg4 about 10 years ago. Miley was driving a clapped out covertable of some sort, it was some pile of rubbish! The car not the programme that is.


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  • #52
    Niles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Niles


    Was Glenroe not broadcast by ITV (albeit a few years behind RTÉ)? I vaguely remember seeing "Bracken" rebroadcast as well, but that must be over ten years ago at this stage.


  • #53
    Dull and Boring
    Registered Users Posts: 7,343 ✭✭✭Dull and Boring


    aisog wrote: »
    Same in my house!!I used to love Blackie!

    I named a pet goldfish I had after him because it had a black streak on it
    bradlente wrote: »
    I used to hate it cos it was time for bed afterwards.......:(

    It used to be a treat as a kid on a Sunday night to get to stay up the extra half an hour to see it. How depressing.


  • #54
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Sorry for bumping this thread but thought it better than starting a new thread on Glenroe :)

    Someone just asked me a question that I do NOT know the answer to:

    What was Mary & Biddys' maiden-name?
    - Mary married Dick and became Mary Moran
    - Biddy married Mylie and took his name so became Biddy Byrne

    but what was their surname before they married? Wasn't Mary married before marrying Dick? (if Yeah, to whom and what was his surname).

    Thanks in advance,


  • #55
    Geri Male
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Geri Male


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    Sorry for bumping this thread but thought it better than starting a new thread on Glenroe :)

    Someone just asked me a question that I do NOT know the answer to:

    What was Mary & Biddys' maiden-name?
    - Mary married Dick and became Mary Moran
    - Biddy married Mylie and took his name so became Biddy Byrne

    but what was their surname before they married? Wasn't Mary married before marrying Dick? (if Yeah, to whom and what was his surname).

    Thanks in advance,

    McDermott.


  • #56
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Geri Male wrote: »
    McDermott.

    Yes that was it! Cheers :)


  • #57
    legoblock1
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭legoblock1


    Glenroe rocks! Used love it on a Sunday eve before having to go to bed for school! Loved minah timlin the nosy one! And sure the fidelma n Miley roll on the hay was pure crap but hilarious all the same! Well holy god!


  • #58
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_RVaOGpkJw


    Bedtime boys and girls


  • #59
    mud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Anyone remember Mary's niece (?) from the north? I remember being so shocked when she said: "Ya batch baddy" to Biddy.

    Also, didn't she spike Mary's tay with magic mushies? :)


  • #60
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Firetrap wrote: »
    Didn't Dinny go to confession as a way of telling Fr Devereux what had happened? And as penance he gave him something like 50 rosaries to say :D

    I remember that scene, and someone writing in to Mailbag to complain. Can't remember exactly why but presumably because they thought it was making a mockery of confession?


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  • #61
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    mud wrote: »
    Anyone remember Mary's niece (?) from the north? I remember being so shocked when she said: "Ya batch baddy" to Biddy.

    Also, didn't she spike Mary's tay with magic mushies? :)

    Yes, dark haired one. Very cute. The only thing I remember her being in after was a tiny part in Paths To Freedom where I think Rats goes up to the North.

    Edit: Just found the scene she's in, from 1:00. She's the barmaid.

    https://youtu.be/rgHg7SFeDF4


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