This used to be our playground.
From Little Big Flix.
A grim Mosney, Co Meath direct provision camp (formely Butlin’s) drone fly over.
Mmf.
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This used to be our playground.
From Little Big Flix.
A grim Mosney, Co Meath direct provision camp (formely Butlin’s) drone fly over.
Mmf.
Trabolgan-goers / Mosney-slummers elucidated the socio-economic divide in my primary school.
Scarlet fer yiz heading to basically an industrial estate in Meath. #bleedinpovo
My school too. Thought I was missing out on something – unjustified holiday envy it now seems.
I did too until they showed me pictures of the Auschwitz-themed accommodation.
Trabolgan rocked because the holiday homes were bigger and nicer than real houses.
Yeah Spaghetti, we all know now that you were the posh kid. Well done.
^ (Playground) politics of envy, ladies and gentleman. Don’t hate him ’cause you ain’t him!
Not trying to insult but if you thought that was posh you must have had tissue box’s for shoes. I lived both places, neither was a posh holiday. But I preferred butlins.
Oh hell naw – you can’t compare the wonder of Trabolgan with the yellow-pack version Mosney, you trippin’!
Look at yiz, with yer Trabolgan and Mosney…. 5 Star stuff that…. we were packed and sent to the farm for four weeks hard labour every summer, gettin’ up before the hens and doin’ farm shhhtuff… hell, if you were good / bad but the weather was good you got an extra two weeks for the hay or the sheep or some other feckin’ thing down the Uncles farm… weeknights it was Yahtzee, cards and the like… and three to a bed.
Sundays though, you lived for them… down the pub after mass, Cidona… from the bottle, with a straw. Yeah baby! ‘chic’ we were…. and bar pool too… we wuz cool for a few mins every weekend… good times ! :)
Same for me..
loved bringing in the hay..and the Cidona.
Fond memories of the mushroom water showers. Even fonder memories of Homelands ’99. Well, actually no memories but for Google.
I was sent to one of my 7 aunts in Glasgy. .. enough said . I win !
Heh :)
Pretty much the same thing for me in my youth clampers. I was sent to my uncles farm wesht of Dingle, also working on his small boat pulling in lobsters and crab.
I think the greatest disappointment for my parents was that I didn’t pick up one work of Irish back there.
That’s grim :-(
No Manky at all. Looks very well kept to me, especially considering how long past it’s heyday it is.
Is the writer’s views biased based on Mosney’s current use, because I don’t see a blade of grass out of place?
Sanks to ze diligence of you and your men, Lagerkommandant.
I was thinking the same, looks in grand nick from above considering its been closed for years
I visited Sachsenhausen cocentration camp, they kept it very tidy.
Future internment camp for political opponents if Fine Gael ever get an outright majority.
You’ll be locked up for having the wrong opinion.
“These days…”
This would’ve been a more suitable backing track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH8kPaqeiA4
Community Games weekends there were epic (as a Manager, I never participated as a kid).
It was a tragedy that they couldn’t keep it going there.
My cousin was tripped in some race back in the day and came in third. He threw the medal at one of the officials and it clocked him in right in the head. That boy had some temper on him.
Happy days.
Ever seen a real refugee camp ?
While the whole direct provision scheme is questionable , that in fairness doesnt look ‘manky’
it probably starts to seem poo when you can’t go anywhere else though. Obviously not as bad as where they came from, but i wouldn’t want to live there.
The real point is that it is destructive and irrational for Irish society.
If you keep a group of foreign people (largely from much poorer countries) segregated from society, not allowed to work or study, in camps at the edge of town, this is a recipe for trouble.
Mental illness, crime, terrorism, disenfranchisment from Irish society are all potential results.
Whether cruel or not (it is cruel), it is stupid policy.
+ gazzillion billion
+1
Just look at France when it kicks off in the poorer areas of Paris.
Anyone else got their first shift at the community games finals?
Yip. My story has been told here before. I’m yet to dine off it though.
finally!
Lots of asbestos roofing ?
http://www.worldabandoned.com/2012/05/mosney-holiday-centre.html