35 things you’ll remember if you grew up in Dún Laoghaire

Did you grow up in Dún Laoghaire? If so, you might remember some of these.

1. Teddy’s ice cream before everyone knew about it.

 

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2. The tang of the salt spray as you walked out of the People’s Park.

 

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3. The metals shaking when an old train went by.

4. Kebabs in Brief Encounters.

5. Asteroids in the Pierrot.

6. Late night gargle in Bonaparte’s.

7. Scullion playing in Walters.

8. Seeing Pat Shortt and Jon Kenny in the Purty Loft.

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9. Don Ferguson upstairs in Scott’s.

10. Coffee after school in Graham’s in the shopping centre.

11. Trying to lights a smoke on the back of the East Pier in the teeth of a gale.

12. A snog during ‘Freebird’ at Pres or Cluny.

13. Posh punks pogoing at the Tea Rooms on Killiney Hill.

14. Seeing Pat Kenny or Bono or Chris de Burgh strolling through Dalkey and it being no big deal.

 

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15. Making your first communion in the Boylan Centre because the church burned down.

16. Turds in the water in Sandycove.

17. Ladies entering the Forty Foot for the first time.

 

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18. Newspaper sellers on the Pier: “Hereed ada Press!”

19. The queue for flagons on a Friday evening in Corrig Stores.

20. Ten P pieces to keep the lights on over the snooker tables in Ben Halls.

21. The chips in the Miami or the Ritz.

22. The Maze in Sandycove.

23. Having a sly cigarette behind Joyce’s tower.

 

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24. The Glasthule summer project.

25. Dublin accents in Glasthule (in fairness, there still are some).

26. No wine bars.

27. The ‘Men’s Bar’ in the Eagle.

28. Orla O’Callaghan and the way she might look at you.

29. Pints of ‘Furstie’ at Magnums in the Royal Marine.

30. Loxy Quinn or Bullfrog confiscating your takeaway sixpacks.

31. Smiddicks upstairs in the Cosy Bar.

32. Watching the ferries come in.

33. The thrills and spills of Rainbow Rapids.

34. Looking over at Howth and being aware that there was a whole city between you and it, but it not really mattering because you had it all: drab and dreary, wet and weary, jewel of the bay, gorgeous Dun Laoghaire.

35. After work pints in Baker’s.

Compiled by Joe Lowry