Huh? I would still get the jug out when a lady comes round for tea.
Garda Patrol
Mailbag with Arthur Murphy
Where In The World? with the lovely Teresa Lowe (my father won us a stereo and three days in Kinsale on it)
Know Your Sport (my father won a fabulous Know Your Sport red jumper and less fabulous beige and white striped tie on it)
Glenroe
Rapid Roulette with Maxi
Dodge the Question with Jonathan Philbin-Bowman
Low budget, spoken ads over a still photograph advertising Irish goods and services (eg “come to O’Connor’s Electrical, Galway for the best value rented televisions in the West” - my granny still rented one off them up to about three years ago)
HA rte fuck them.
first hand info re twitter
GAA players appearing in ads for Ivomec rather than Lucozade Sport
i presume he meant Jugs the poster
What was that one where Twink and Derek used to mime stuff? On reflection we were a simple people in those days.
GAA players not appearing in ads for cow worming products
Play The Game.
You’d have to say it was the best thing Twink ever did and Ronan Collins kept a firm but fair control as presenter.
FA Cup finals where half the players on the pitch were Irish.
Number 1 with G Ryan, Ian Dempsey and Joe Elliott.
Even though it may have felt like it, I don’t believe that ever happened. Arsenal with six Irish on their team in 1979 was probably the closest.
Wondering whether or not the car would “make it to Dublin”
MT USA
Vincent hanly
[quote=“Fagan ODowd, post: 806360, member: 706”]A thread to log things that were once there, during the lifetime of forumites, but sadly are no longer there.
An excuse for nostalgia, if you will.
I’ll start.
Bob a job week.[/quote]
What could potentially go wrong with young children calling to strangers houses asking them if they wanted anything done for a few pence.
People going to Dublin and telling everyone for a week or two before hand and asking them if they wanted to “bring anything back”.
Switzer’s
H. Williams supermarkets
Roches Stores
Record shops
Orange buses in Dublin
Green buses in Dublin
Orange trains in Ireland
Lydon’s bakery in Shop Street, Galway
Naughton’s hardware and lighting, Shop Street
O’Gorman’s bookshop, Shop Street
Raftery’s, Galway
Cars on Shop Street
The Adelphi cinema, Abbey Street
The Carlton cinema, O’Connell Street
Mackey’s Seeds, Mary Street where the entrance to the Jervis Street shopping centre now is
Duty free shopping
Going out on a Friday night with a tenner in your pocket.
The Lyrics Board
God be with the days-5 cans, free into the club before 11, 10 box of fags, two cheap shots of mickey finns and waking up in the morning with fishy fingers and stained jeans.