Phrases your parents constantly used in your childhood.

“You can go to bed after Glenroe” was the norm on a Sunday night.

“Shut your mouth and eat your dinner”, was another regular

Any time dad was gone out it was always “to see a man about a dog”. We never got a dog

My Dad used to call farts 'Air Fresheners' Which was cute until that one time I was in the back of a car with a bunch of my under 12 hurling teamates on the way to a match (way more kids than seatbelts but those were the days) and someone farted, and me like the eejit that I am said 'Who's after doing an air freshener?'

He also used to call that small castle between limerick and Ennis 'Bun Mousey' because it was smaller than Bunratty. Another embarrassing moment in front of my gaa teammates, thanks dad.

Mother: "Stop your nonsense"

‘Outta the light’ when someone was standing in front of the TV.

‘I won’t tell ya again...’ and invariably you were told many times after that.

‘When I was your age we never had...’ which I usually replied, I’m going to ask nana or granda is that’s true and then got a clip around the ear for being cheeky.

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Do you think I came up the Liffey on a bike?

Up the Bann in a bubble is my mother's north Armagh version.