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The Sunday World.

  • 08-08-2017 10:25am
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    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭


    Rag of a paper that I don't read anymore but when my parents used to get it in the 80's some of the features and stories used to be a source of fun. Those exposes of brothels where the reporter "made his excuses and left". Toni The Exotic Dancer. The showbiz ads section featuring terrible past it- cabaret acts, washed up showbands like The Indians and regional comedians like Tom And Pascall. Pub Spy who used to do reviews of pubs and going on about barmen serving slops and filthy jacks. Shock horror feature on Video Nasties with a graphic picture of the cover for Driller Killer "The blood runs in rivers, and the drill keeps tearing through flesh and bone".


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  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    And remember that running cartoon they had poking fun at the Fianna Gael/ Labour coalition of the mid 80's called GarBarDick? It had Garret Fitzgerald, Barry Noonan and Dick Spring depicted as a scaly three headed dinosaur type monster. Weirdly they depicted it as having womens boobs (well the Sunday World was always obsessed with boobs)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    They used to have a section for kids as well


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    branie2 wrote: »
    They used to have a section for kids as well

    Yes, with a weekly colouring competition. I won something in that one time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Pub spy always a great read. The old commando and the young commando and others visiting towns around the country

    I've been in a few pubs that proudly put their pub spy review on the wall


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,161 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I miss expose articles on heavy metal bands being evil... Fr Brian D'Arcy wasn't a slayer, deicide or carcass fan.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    What was the name of the guy who had a column where he'd be giving out about women drivers and feminism etc? Have a feeling it might have been slightly tongue in cheek or maybe not, always used to spark angry responses in the letters section. He had a big red face and looked like he was fond of a few jars.


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    I miss expose articles on heavy metal bands being evil... Fr Brian D'Arcy wasn't a slayer, deicide or carcass fan.

    Ha, I remember they actually did a cover story on Carcass titled something like "Ban this sick band" and showing the gruesome cover for their album Symphonies Of Sickness. Of course I had to buy it after that.

    Another metal shock horror feature they did was about a video by the band WASP where the singer is throttling a priest in confession which in the video is actually done for comic effect but the Sunday World had these still images that tried to make it look more sinister and tried to put some kind of satanic slant on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,161 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Ha, I remember they actually did a cover story on Carcass titled something like "Ban this sick band" and showing the gruesome cover for their album Symphonies Of Sickness. Of course I had to buy it after that.

    Another metal shock horror feature they did was about a video by the band WASP where the singer is throttling a priest in confession which in the video is actually done for comic effect but the Sunday World had these still images that tried to make it look more sinister and tried to put some kind of satanic slant on it.

    I remember that... Why Couldn't he just enjoy carcasses sense of humour!..


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    darkdubh wrote: »
    What was the name of the guy who had a column where he'd be giving out about women drivers and feminism etc? Have a feeling it might have been slightly tongue in cheek or maybe not, always used to spark angry responses in the letters section. He had a big red face and looked like he was fond of a few jars.

    Murray?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,230 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    I remember when I was "getting it every Sunday",but not anymore.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    For some unknown reason, I used to call the kids' section the Popeye pages, even though there was no Popeye strip in it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    kupus wrote: »
    Murray?

    I have a feeling it was a different fella but could be him.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    branie2 wrote: »
    For some unknown reason, I used to call the kids' section the Popeye pages, even though there was no Popeye strip in it.

    Are you sure, I seem to vaguely remember Popeye being in it at some stage?
    They did have The Phantom "The Ghost Who Walks". Also that bald lad Henry. They also used to do these syndicated strips of childrens movies that had been out recently in the cinema. The Black Cauldron was one and another one I remember was Return To Oz.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    They also did a strip based on Condor Man


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    darkdubh wrote: »
    What was the name of the guy who had a column where he'd be giving out about women drivers and feminism etc? Have a feeling it might have been slightly tongue in cheek or maybe not, always used to spark angry responses in the letters section. He had a big red face and looked like he was fond of a few jars.

    Was it an auld fella from Kerry?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    Was it an auld fella from Kerry?

    Con Houlihan? It wasn't him. The guy I'm talking about had some kind of distinctive facial hair, either very long mutton chop sideburns or one of those beards with no moustache like Abraham Lincoln had. I seem to remember he was pretty right wing, kind of came across a bit like Gary Bushnell in the Sun, similar kind of style.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I got an edition many years ago, as there was an article on Nostradamus


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    branie2 wrote: »
    I got an edition many years ago, as there was an article on Nostradamus

    Think I remember that. Was that around the time of the run up to the first Gulf War (1991) with Nostro's "predictions" about Saddam Hussein?


  • Registered Users Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Wowbagger


    darkdubh wrote: »
    What was the name of the guy who had a column where he'd be giving out about women drivers and feminism etc? Have a feeling it might have been slightly tongue in cheek or maybe not, always used to spark angry responses in the letters section. He had a big red face and looked like he was fond of a few jars.

    Would it have been Kevin Marron?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Think I remember that. Was that around the time of the run up to the first Gulf War (1991) with Nostro's "predictions" about Saddam Hussein?

    Later than that, I think


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Wowbagger wrote: »
    Would it have been Kevin Marron?

    It wasn't him. He was killed in the 84 plane crash right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭WHL


    Pretty sure that Pub Spy is still running


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    WHL wrote: »
    Pretty sure that Pub Spy is still running

    Really? I'm surprised at that, then again I don't look at it these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Really? I'm surprised at that, then again I don't look at it these days.

    It's still there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭cml387


    Shay Healy I think had a parody song based on Dr. Hook's song "Cover of the Rolling Stone".

    One line went

    "And I'll ask Brian D'Arcy if he'll get my arsey on the cover of the Sunday World".


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Toni The Exotic dancer used to be a constant feature in their pages in the late 80's. A housewife from Tallaght shaking her jugs was about as exotic as it got in Ireland then.

    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1129/835226-toni-exotic-dancer/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Claude Wilton


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Toni The Exotic dancer used to be a constant feature in their pages in the late 80's. A housewife from Tallaght shaking her jugs was about as exotic as it got in Ireland then.

    The Lower Deck in Portobello used to host Toni on Sunday mornings. Me and my mates were just out of school and never did go in, as we thought we'd get knifed in there


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    One of their "stories" that I remember from about mid 80's was about a black South African guy called "Miley" (apparently his real first name) who was doing some sort of cabaret act in a Dublin pub and all the women in the audience stormed the stage and ripped his clothes off him. There was a picture of him on the stage in the buff with the token black bar censoring his tackle. I think even at time aged 12 or 13 I copped that it was probably some kind of publicity stunt. They had a follow up story the next week with Miley and his Irish girlfriend who was saying something like Miley is my man and other women better stay away from him.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    And remember that running cartoon they had poking fun at the Fianna Gael/ Labour coalition of the mid 80's called GarBarDick? It had Garret Fitzgerald, Barry Noonan and Dick Spring depicted as a scaly three headed dinosaur type monster. Weirdly they depicted it as having womens boobs (well the Sunday World was always obsessed with boobs)

    BTW anyone else remember this, I've tried to find images online to no avail.I'm trying to remember who the cartoonist was. Pretty sure it wasn't Tom Matthews.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh




  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Kevin Sharkey being mentioned in the clebs who disappeared without trace thread reminded me of when he was presenting Megamix circa mid 80's the Sunday World did a story on him where they printed these pictures that he'd done for a gay porn magazine in London when he was living there in the 70's. I remember being struck by the fact that he had this big 70's afro in the pictures which was at odds with his then hip looking 80's image.That and the fact that he was balls naked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    I vaguely recall they had a hair spy as well as a pub spy at one stage where undercover reporters would go and selflessly get their hair done in the name of research.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    What was the name of that middle aged woman who did the agony aunt column? Dear "insert name" it was called.

    Edit: Found out there was a column called Dear Linda.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 503 ✭✭✭interlocked


    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/

    That's the woman I was thinking of, I was getting the two columns mixed up. I seem to recall she was kind of conservative in terms of the advice she gave people, ie sex before marriage etc. Dear Linda was anonymous I think.

    Link with picture of Michelle McCormack.

    https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2131/039.html


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    darkdubh wrote: »
    What was the name of the guy who had a column where he'd be giving out about women drivers and feminism etc? Have a feeling it might have been slightly tongue in cheek or maybe not, always used to spark angry responses in the letters section. He had a big red face and looked like he was fond of a few jars.
    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/

    I think that might be the guy I was posting about earlier, wish I could think of his second name.


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Henry was one of the strips in the kids section. Never quite got the deal with him.He had no visible mouth and as far as I know never spoke.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Henry was one of the strips in the kids section. Never quite got the deal with him.He had no visible mouth and as far as I know never spoke.


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    I've forgotten about Henry until now. Talk about a blast from the past!


  • Site Banned Posts: 78 ✭✭johnnyyesno


    He looks kind of like a fetus.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 78 ✭✭johnnyyesno


    Dear Linda.

    There was also Micheline McCormack.

    In the 1980's they started a campaign that real men didn't eat quiche which most Irish men wouldn't have recognised if it was slapped in their face.

    There was also the showbiz correspondent "Swashbuckling" Andy Deveraux who had a worrying penchant for Bob Segar, and another journalist with a beard at the time called Bill "something"

    They had a Grub Spy, Pub Spy and a Hair Spy who was obsessed with hair brush sterilisers.

    BTW Kevin Marron was the editor of a 1970's Irish men's magazine called Man Alive which featured full nude spreads of Irish women, hard to believe that that was happening over forty years ago, episode 2 even included an interview with one Eamon Dunphy, keeping it real even then baby............................

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2011/08/25/man-alive-issue-2-june-1974-mens-fashion/

    Lol, I remember Dear Linda.

    sundayworld.jpg

    https://brandnewretro.ie/2017/07/17/retro-worries-42-boomerang/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,230 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Thirty five years since it was first published.


  • Site Banned Posts: 78 ✭✭johnnyyesno


    Thirty five years since it was first published.

    It's been longer than that, it started in the early 70's.


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


    Did the Sunday World have a page 3 in the 80's/90's like the English tabloids did? I seem to remember them having regular models in a state of undress but they'd stop short at showing them topless. I remember a few nude shots from behind all right.


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


    That story about the Aussie woman who kicked up a fuss over not being addressed as Doctor reminded me of when Gay Byrne had a weekly column in the Sunday World in the late 80's. It was not long after he got his doctorate from Trinity and he wrote the column under the name "Dr Gay Byrne" and it was accompanied by a picture of him in mortar board hat and dressed like an Oxford don. He got a lot of slagging over that I recall with people feeling that he was getting fierce notions about himself. I don't think the column lasted all that long,I think it was him telling anecdotes and general musings on life. The only thing he wrote in it that sticks in my head was a statement he made one week that he found Charley Chaplin "about as funny as cancer".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I first heard of Viz when Sunday World did a story on it circa 1989. They had a picture of Johnny Fartpants on the cover, not as the main pic but one one of those smaller panels accompanied by the tagline " Is this the world's rudest comic?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Anyone remember the TV column in the Sunday World by the late John Little? He really didn't hold back on shows he didn't like. He tore strips out of that RTE prison drama "Inside". It was awful tbf. He'd slate Fair City as well when it first started.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,129 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Anyone remember the TV column in the Sunday World by the late John Little? He really didn't hold back on shows he didn't like. He tore strips out of that RTE prison drama "Inside". It was awful tbf. He'd slate Fair City as well when it first started.

    I didn't come across that alas and I don't remember Inside either... I love reading those old reviews from Clive James for that era.
    The Fair City one would be class to read now.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I didn't come across that alas and I don't remember Inside either... I love reading those old reviews from Clive James for that era.
    The Fair City one would be class to read now.

    He would have been doing the TV column 1980s into the early 90s then for some reason he was switched to doing the horoscopes which I thought was an awful waste of his talents. He passed away in 2002.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    About the infamous Carcass Symphonys Of Sickness cover story from 1990.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=585842238634958&id=209863716232814


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