1. “You can play with your presents after mass”
2. Playing sticks, kerbs and tip the can on the Green
3. Hopping bales down the country
4. Christy Moore Live from the Point on in the car
5. The Child of Prague under the hedge
6. Liver fluke ads on the radio
7. Sheep worrying ads on the telly
8. Knowing your wattle and daub inside out
9. A spoon to the arse for acting the maggot
10. Flat 7up when you’re feeling like shite
11. Rose of Tralee = nearly the end of the school holidays
12. Under the Hawthorn Tree
13. 2p flogs
14. 10p crisps
15. The Raccoons and Captain Planet
16. “Ár nAthair atá ar neamh…”
17. Orange ‘Sparklers’
18. The smell of the mála (or was it márla?)
19. You remember the stag on a pound
20. And the horse on 20p
21. Childhood summers spent in Lahinch, Tramore, Brittas and Bundoran
22. Looking for a scissors to cut the top off your cool pop
23. Catching tadpoles, and they always died
24. Plastic bags in your wellies when it eventually snowed
25. “Fear sneachta bán, hata ar a ceann…”
26. Diluted orange in a big jug
27. Desperate fear of the cigire
28. “Do you want it in a wafer?”
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