15 things you’ll remember if you grew up in Kilbarrack

KILBARRACK has received worldwide recognition thanks to its starring role in Roddy Doyle’s fictional suburb of Barrytown. Here are a few things you might remember if you grew up there.

1. Helping your ma with the weekly shop in Kilbarrack Shopping Centre.

2. Being taught by Roddy Doyle when he was a teacher at Greendale Community School.

3. Recognising every single street in ‘The Snapper’.

4. Being brought to the playground as a child at Swansnest Court flats complex.

5. Feeling terrified as the Belfast train (the ‘Beller’) roared past you at Kilbarrack train station.

6. Wondering what the inside of the training tower at Kilbarrack Fire Station looked like.

Kilbarrack is the first Carbon Neutral Fire Station in the World. @GreenPlanHQ http://t.co/z7pEGUAqng#factualfriday pic.twitter.com/8SnNDVjvTJ

— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) May 22, 2015

7. The demolition of the flats.

8. The complex series of ramps at the train station and being afraid to cross over them at night.

9. 3 Guys supermarket and not understanding why some people called it Gubay’s.

10. The ‘big’ houses on the Kilbarrack Road.

11. The sad closure of Greendale Community School.

12. Your da popping in “for a message” to the darkened, mysterious confines of Madigan’s.

13. Thinking that Foxfield was the posh part of Kilbarrack.

14. Seeing politician Dr Michael Woods at every single local event.

15. Going to the dentist for the first time at the health centre.