Things that continue to be right…or things that float your 🐐

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Bandage

I attended St Peter’s College when boarding was still a thing but I was one of those townie “day pupils”. A lesser sort altogether. The school finished boarding after our Junior Cert year but most of the boarders stayed on to do the Leaving Cert there. It meant their families had to actually see them from time to time. It was usually rich horsey/landowner/farmery types that boarded. Most of them stayed in the school at weekends & it always struck me as sad & lonesome that kids would be sent to board there, while the folks arsed around their very big house in the country. Often only 10/15 miles from Wexford town.

De La Salle was the big boarding school for boys in Waterford, Ursuline for the girls. Mostly farmers children from South Kilkenny.

[horriblecunt]

The ones that were from relatively close by, 20 miles or less, always struck me as odd. Way back in the day I could see that making sense when travel was a bit harder, but being within half hour drive of your child and not seeing them for weeks at a time was weird carry on.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

I’d equally say that generation would have thought it odd that lads fire their one year old kids into crèche so they can go for a run and a coffee.

[PasqualePaoli]

If I had a day off school my father would send me to some sort of work somewhere, in case I went soft or something. It wasn’t unusual for me to be landed to a field away from home with just a briar knife. Food and water optional.

Those old school farmer types were born into hardship and knew nothing else, incredibly far removed from modern day parenting.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

No different to one’s local gaa club I’d say

[Juhniallio]

@TheUlteriorMotive

I’d equally say that generation would have thought it odd that lads fire their one year old kids into crèche so they can go for a run and a coffee.

Oooooft. Thats gonna fuck with @Bandage’s km splits you’d have to feel.

[Bandage]

@Juhniallio

Oooooft. Thats gonna fuck with @Bandage’s km splits you’d have to feel.

Absolutely no excuses for underperforming in the marathon again this year, if I drop the younger lad to crèche tomorrow & collect him at Halloween.

[gilgamboa]

Bruff had a convent for girls boarding that loads of farmers used to send their daughters there who wouldn’t be any use at home on the farm in the way. I know loads of girls who went there my own age it sounds like something from the 50s

[balbec]

It shut around twenty years ago I think

[Jahan]

Limerick FC bought ít / were to buy it to use as a training base a good few years back. I’m not sure what came of it.

[LionelRitchie]

Think there was an academy to be run out of it/is being run? Thought heard mention anyway

[Mac]

@Bandage

I attended St Peter’s College when boarding was still a thing but I was one of those townie “day pupils”. A lesser sort altogether. The school finished boarding after our Junior Cert year but most of the boarders stayed on to do the Leaving Cert there. It meant their families had to actually see them from time to time. It was usually rich horsey/landowner/farmery types that boarded. Most of them stayed in the school at weekends & it always struck me as sad & lonesome that kids would be sent to board there, while the folks arsed around their very big house in the country. Often only 10/15 miles from Wexford town.

The priests molesting and abusing most of them would have passed the time at the weekend I guess

[EstebanSexface]

the real victims were the lads the priests wouldn’t even touch

[Locke]

I knew a boarder in Kieran’s who was from Clara ffs! But there were others from Tipp, Tramore, kilmacow, Mallorca, and Mountbellew.

[maurice_brown]

@Locke

Mountbellew

He hardly hurled did he?

[myboyblue]

@TheUlteriorMotive

I’d equally say that generation would have thought it odd that lads fire their one year old kids into crèche so they can go for a run and a coffee.

Jesus, that man has children you know, oh what, you do know

[RFK]

Full of asylum seekers

[habanerocat]

Is that a statement of fact or a question?

[RFK]

[gilgamboa]

What a story…harbo and aaaar kid

Niall Harbison