Jaysus, I suppose the obvious question here is what era we’re talking about?
He was a big league man obviously?
Early to mid 90’s.
Big league man?
Just a joke,
Back then you could only lose once, and it was likely to be in July for Cork
But the mid 90s 
Thinking back I had two female older teachers in national school and while they were quick with the odd whack they were among the best teachers I’ve had in terms of actually learning stuff. I never knew as much Irish as I did back then.
Both of them were lovely people away from school too as I would have met them around in later years.
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I had a mental old bat in first class who used hit hits with the ruler and drag them around the class by the ear.
One of my favourite memories of secondary school involved the class being in a room waiting on a teacher. A classmate was spotted clattering another lad who was a soft touch by a teacher who was passing… The teacher came in, grabbed the offender by the ear and booted him up the hole 3 or 4 times… A right humiliation for a wannabe hard man 
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Yeah the adult physically abusing the child is an actual hardman
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He was doing the rest of us a right good turn in this instance anyway
If my usually informed sources are correct Bressie has purchased in the Greystones area
It’s mad. You think now of those times and some of the kids involved and apart from a bit of high jinx most of them were sound.
The traveller lads for instance I went to school with were sound. And those from a tough upbringing. And then society took over, they followed the predefined course and things start to slip. It’s sad.
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Wickla ???
I went to a tough enough school… I Never had a bit of bother there but was a few bullies in the school, but generally they were country lads and not the lads you would expect. Was a zero tolerance approach to bullying in the school, teachers were happy enough to let older students resolve these issues without fear of sanction…
Greystones ain’t Wickla
It’s knitting yoghurt, yoga and swinging Protestants.
Why’s he strange? Because he had a different experience to you? Catch yourself on
I find it strange that a rap across the knuckles or being afraid of a teacher for a bit is being equivocated with having it tough or victimhood when in reality it’s not
Where did farmer say that… Think he said almost the exact opposite
I’d say you misinterpreted his posts there fella
Fair enough
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In fairness they were probably trying to hit you on the head but just couldn’t reach