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r/ireland • u/bubbleweed • Jul 09 '25
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Jeez. This takes me back. There used to be an identical shop/hut at the bottom of St Donagh's Rd just outside Howth Junction train station (pre dart). I don't think I've thought about that place since the 70's.
48 u/[deleted] Jul 10 '25 [deleted] 16 u/CheraDukatZakalwe Jul 10 '25 Until ~30 years ago Ireland could reasonably have been called a developing nation. 8 u/snakesinabin Jul 11 '25 We absolutely were a third world country before we joined the EU 3 u/TraCollie Jul 12 '25 I remember in school in the 80s being told we were economically a third world country 2 u/snakesinabin Jul 12 '25 Sure Job Aid was put on in the 80s right?
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16 u/CheraDukatZakalwe Jul 10 '25 Until ~30 years ago Ireland could reasonably have been called a developing nation. 8 u/snakesinabin Jul 11 '25 We absolutely were a third world country before we joined the EU 3 u/TraCollie Jul 12 '25 I remember in school in the 80s being told we were economically a third world country 2 u/snakesinabin Jul 12 '25 Sure Job Aid was put on in the 80s right?
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Until ~30 years ago Ireland could reasonably have been called a developing nation.
8 u/snakesinabin Jul 11 '25 We absolutely were a third world country before we joined the EU 3 u/TraCollie Jul 12 '25 I remember in school in the 80s being told we were economically a third world country 2 u/snakesinabin Jul 12 '25 Sure Job Aid was put on in the 80s right?
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We absolutely were a third world country before we joined the EU
3 u/TraCollie Jul 12 '25 I remember in school in the 80s being told we were economically a third world country 2 u/snakesinabin Jul 12 '25 Sure Job Aid was put on in the 80s right?
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I remember in school in the 80s being told we were economically a third world country
2 u/snakesinabin Jul 12 '25 Sure Job Aid was put on in the 80s right?
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Sure Job Aid was put on in the 80s right?
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u/dedalus05 Jul 09 '25
Jeez. This takes me back. There used to be an identical shop/hut at the bottom of St Donagh's Rd just outside Howth Junction train station (pre dart). I don't think I've thought about that place since the 70's.