Very Irish Things

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A thread of appreciation of things that only seem to happen in Ireland.

I was away for two weeks and a couple of days after I returned the postman knocked on my door with a big bag of packages ( they were sent from work, only two were very delayed orders). He realised I was away so instead of leaving them and risking theft or damage he stored them for me.

Anyone else any good stories?

@Joolsin thanks for that - had a little google and the intention was for it to be cryptic - apparently it went ‘viral’ before the Internet as discussions we held.

Certainly was v sophisticated and high production compared to the static voice over farming ads for worming treatments that were commonplace.

It's so random to have such strong memories from ads about worming treatment 🤣🤣🤣

And 10-10-20 fertiliser!!

Yes! All a mystery to me, but they seemed somewhat exotic when i was young!

Do you live in Dublin chickenkeev

Spent 20 years there @Mooshamoo , got sick and so couldn't afford it anymore. My MH was rock bottom and my mum said come home (west), stay in my house til you feel better. She got me a temp job in her office so did well for a while. But then got sick again. Life! I loved Dublin, but where we were living was so expensive it just became undoable. But i wouldn't change any of it, met some of my best friends and my H there.

I notice everyone brushed over my posts about all the rape and victim blaming that goes on in Ireland.

That is the attitude in this country which I have to say I've seen a good bit.

Brush the bad stuff under the carpet. Act like it doesnt happen. Turn the head the other way.

Yes Dublin is nice. Just expensive. Sorry to hear that you got sick. That's great that you met friends and h in Dublin. What made you move to France . Was it work. I think you said you lived there too

Was there a series of them @Chickenkeev ? I only looked at the link posted here.

I think why it stuck in my head was because I was brought up in London and went back ‘home for the holidays’ for 6 weeks each summer (alongside most of my school mates) and it was such a transition from inner city London to v rural and remote west coast Ireland in the 1970s - so the TV not coming on and the lame farming ads had in impact.

This might jog a few memories:

1980's adverts in Ireland.

It happens everywhere though. It's not specific to here. Nobody is pretending that it's a perfect country. It's far from it. But we brought in same sex marriage, we repealed the 8th. We have come very far very fast. So lets be hopeful! Lets work together to improve. Change won't happen otherwise.

Nobody is brushing anything anywhere the OPs posts says APPRECIATION of Ireland. That is what the rest of us are here to do.

I'm after watching that Youtube video and the thing that gets me is the advert for Irish Permanent with the "top interest rate"....yeah of 12.75%!!! Holy shite how did anyone afford a mortgage back then having to pay that amount of interest. Also "no lunch break and open until 5pm" which was a unique selling point so much so they shoved it in the advert!

How times change 😄

Love those @LookItsMeAgain ..... now just realised that it was the same man doing the voice over for all the static ads......also looks like Father Ted’s Parochial House in the Erin soup ad?

I think there's only the one man she's making eyes at - Mr Sensitive who's going to miss his lovely horse. The other is just a teen (the son). It's made very clear the housekeeper (not mammy) disapproves of the French hussy and all her "you cook like a Frenchman" nonsense.
If looks could kill!

What's goes to happen depends on who'll bring the horse to France when the deal goes through. Some randomer? Or possibly Mr Sensitive?
(Wasn't he in Glenroe or something by the way?)

Not sure why she can't bring the horse to France herself to be honest, but I suppose there's no romance in that.

In this playlist there is the advert for Galtee rashers (someone up thread mentioned it) amongst others.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOMLPL1i7Cb9f2wn1OoVzPWlzazbE2e_K&si=zuqx5cwIV87RRGls

My favourite radio ad is the Barry's tea one they play at Christmas every year, with the granddad and the train set. I could recite it line for line alongside the actor if I didn't get all teared up half way through.

Did a year there for college. I was a fish out of water there but it was a useful experience in that it grew me up a bit. Every cloud etc!

Our local bus is generally 5 to 10 mins late. There was an East European driver

who would be exactly on time. Caught a few people out!
The train is always on time. Sometimes messed up on Sunday. Sometimes a bus takes you part of the way.
Just like the UK really. And way better than the USA.

Ps I have free travel here 24/7/365. Much to the annoyance of my poor DS. She gets to travel around her sw English city outside the rush hour

Speaking of Christmas, must check if my mother has her sprouts on yet.

Shtaaap! Already mini panic about presents. CDs and DVDs were my lifesaver when the kids were young. I hate this new world devoid of Things. Who needs the fridge asking you hoe you feel at the crack of dawn. Always books I guess....

One for all vouchers are your friend! (I'm terrible at presents!)

Also @Abhannmor , 'shtaaap' just reminded me of a v good friend and made me smile. Thanks for that!

Good plan re the vouchers. Actually this thread has given me an idea : books about Ireland in the 60s etc. Damien Corless wrote one about children's street games. Must be a few biographies like that.

There's 5 cities in the Republic of Ireland though Kilkenny go on about being a city too due to some king's charter.

My DS lives in Dublin in Rathmines and pays €620 approx for a double room in a modern 3 bed apartment and loves the location.