🌬 The Weather Thread part 2

[anon67715551]

Where’s Neddy when you wanted him…I wouldn’t have seen ye frozen…

[Locke]

85 was shocking bad. 86 the brother and I were shipped up to Mid-Tipp to help with the turf for two weeks. Cunt of a job. Too young to drive the tractor.

[artfoley]

@cowpat

What was netflix and chill in 95? Listening to tapes in a ford fiesta down the bog road getting a feel?

going down the burrow road with a youngwan to the dunes

[maurice_brown]

@anon67715551

The summer of 1976 was the longest, warmest, driest one that I remember. When it finally rained we stood in it almost thanking God. Veterans like @Fagan_ODowd may remember the opening of PUC, the heat, the crowd, the absolute mayhem, the congestion and the divil knows what.
We were holidaying in Kenmare and were lucky to get back for official closing time but that itself was a moveable feast. The Yerras are amenable to changing things of this nature to suit themselves…

Is that the summer me Dad was on about where the farmers had to bring in their cattle during the day and let them out in the cool of the night?

[maurice_brown]

@Locke

Too young to drive the tractor.

The only reason you’d want to go to the bog as a young lad

[Locke]

I had just turned 11 and could just about reach the peddles. Don’t know what the issue was.

[maurice_brown]

@Locke

I had just turned 11 and could just about reach the peddles. Don’t know what the issue was.

Ahh here! I used to stand up on the Ferguson 20

[mikehunt]

Can ye move this shit to the Roaster thread please guys?

[Locke]

That was my argument, stand up and hold onto the wheel. But the uncle was having none of it. In later years he promised me that I would get to drive the tractor if I came up for the turf, I told him to fuck off, I had Roinn A U-14 championship and he had his chance! He still talks about it now.

[Bod95]

@peddlerscross

We never stopped eating 99’s at lunchtime in school.

Fair play to Coach Kiely for getting the ice cream van down from LK training.

[maurice_brown]

fucking townie

[peddlerscross]

Kiely was a selector at the time with John Allen and a prominent TFK poster went up to him the week before the Tipp match and asked, ‘Sir, what’s yer plan for Tipp on Sunday’.

Kiely responded, ‘we’re going to go man on man, 15 v 15 and see where it takes us’.

The prominent TFK poster in his ignorance and arrogance responded, ‘Best of luck with that’.

Kiely had a grand smirk on him the following week outside the exam hall. We also had some auld lad from Limerick as the Invigilator who couldn’t help but wear a Sporting Limerick logo’d top to school on the Monday after.

Great days all the same. The weather was unreal.

[anon67715551]

The only pitches in the country with a semblance of green grass on them were in Leitrim. The wet, dauby soil retained the moisture and left the place like Augusta. Bud Poppa Brown wasn’t wrong….

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

The weather was unreal in 2013 alright. Cracking summer until Limerick lost to Clare.

[peddlerscross]

I remember coming home from Nowlan Park the first Saturday in July, while there was a sucker of a sunset going on and it felt like summer was ending.

There was a great Club Championship in Tipp afterwards though.

[maurice_brown]

Vaaaguely remember '76, 1995 thou, wow. I worked in Supermacs that summer. The mighty macs didn’t require any seasoning with the sweat from my brow.
REM with Oasis in support at Slane that year if memory serves me well.

[TreatyStones]

They were an iconic few weeks in the city. You had the Bruce Springsteen concerts in Thomond Park followed by the Munster final against Cork, which we won, in absolutely baking sunshine. There had a refrigerated arctic trailer filled with cider parked at the back of the Ardhu and they taking in fivers hand over fist.

[StoneCold]

Summer 2013 was a melter alright. Great weather for lying off in Herbert Park in Ballsbridge with the sunglasses on and watching the posh totty stroll by

[Fagan_ODowd]

@TreatyStones

They were an iconic few weeks in the city. You had the Bruce Springsteen concerts in Thomond Park followed by the Munster final against Cork, which we won, in absolutely baking sunshine. There had a refrigerated arctic trailer filled with cider parked at the back of the Ardhu and they taking in fivers hand over fist.

Myself, Powery and Chuck were at that Munster Final. It was the one where Pat Horgan was sent off in the wrong. A blind man could see what actually happened. I drove and let the boys have a few scoops.

[Batigol]

2021 was savage warm. After the munster final the pub I was illegally in due to Covid restrictions had to open all the doors and windows