You’re a Bitch and a half Sweeney!
It’s Xmas every week for kids nowadays,they get presents nearly every week from somebody,crazy shit.My ones can’t get over how I never went to Spain every year or went out to a restaurant most weekends.When I tell them that we only had 1 tv with about 5 stations they’re shocked but I suppose all they know is comfort and never being stuck for anything.As a neighbour I grew up with told me one day,just cause we suffered doesn’t mean they have to.
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Five stations?? You flash bastard!!
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Remember you’re dealing with Limerick hurling supporters here, they’ve had enough disappointments by the time they were 10 years old to last a lifetime. I reckon they’re mentally scarred from it.
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I remember having only rte one. Then before rte two started broadcasting they used to run pilots on Saturday nights showing “The Streets of San Francisco” starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas.
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Grandpa swan.
Do do do do do do
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Ah we had RTE1/2 UTV BBC1 and 2.
I’ll always remember the L shaped sheets on Dallas. That was how it was in America we thought.
He had some snout on him, your man.
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I remember having no fcuking telly at all til I was ten I’d say. Wasn’t allowed watch dallas then even when we got one. Then they set up some sort of deflector which I doubt was legal. Got bbc then, I’d say five channels. Twas unrale.
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I remember the only tape player in our family was in my Dad’s car. We would spend the evenings out there. There wasn’t even a rewind button. You would have to forward the other side in order to rewind the side you were interested in.
Great memories.
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I thought things were bad in Moyross - I was living in luxury compared to half you lads.
Postman Pat on BBC when I was 3.
A rewind and record button on the tape player/ radio.
3 warm meals a day.
Glue sniffers to throw stones at.
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Way After my time bro … You have to remember there was a housing crisis in Limerick in the 70s/80s and lots of couples took houses in Moyross and the likes but got out of there within 10 years — those that stayed were a very different story — that’s when those boys came in. Sound lads by all accounts.
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Not going to Spain every year is hardship according to one lad up there FFS?
We holidayed in Ballybunnion every year. We could start a game of ball in the morning at home and finish it below in Ballybunnion on the beach that evening, with the same lads, such was the mass migration from Limerick to Kerry for builders holidays. Fantastic times
Last week of July for the builders holidays isnt it? Or around that anyway
yeah mate. Don’t know why everyone was on the move then. this was the 80’s. no fucker was working