They are all on yokes
@Batigol and @BruidheanChaorthainn would be in heaven thereā¦ drinking away all day and running in and out of the bookies.
Thatās Ireland of the 70s/ 80s Cork was fucked 3 out my class of 35/6 stayed at home all others emigrated
That was a hard watch.
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That would have been fairly standard in port cities in Britain and Ireland back then . Fishing ports and factories /print works / markets too . Early houses were grand in the main . Mostly men coming off shifts who felt like a pint or two . There were also people there who needed to be there which is sad .
A declining culture though
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I get that bit but itās the lads in looking for work and nowhere to go. Some of them were young enough.
Ya . Cork took a savage hit in the 80s with Ford and Dunlop going
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Iām not fully convinced the chef was due to have a job interview at 7am
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My old man was in Dunlopās never worked again, Gouldingās fertiliser was another one that went
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Is the Dunlop Social club in Blackrock still going . I had a few drinks there near on 20 years ago after a match in PUC
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No, Dunlopās closed well over ten years ago, it was a grand place for a drink, full size snooker table as well
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Gone my old man was on the committee of it,glad he didnāt live to see a lot of in house fighting over profits etc as they were all shareholders and the place was disk from under them
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Correct my old man bought me ( as he thought at the time ) my first murphys and a few games of snooker there
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Is that place still open and does it have an early licence? Early houses are considered rough nowadays.
I remember queues outside the mouse in limerick when I lived nearby. I would be onnthevway to work. Some heads
Early houses were the new student fad pre-Covid.
Pat Butler was a grand reporter
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He was very shifty
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He was. Havenāt heard about him in years.