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28 true signs of growing up Irish
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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
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4. Christy Moore Live from the Point on in the car
5. The Child of Prague under the hedge
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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
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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
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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?)
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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
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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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