A documentary about Ireland’s longest-running ice-cream van.
Writes Colin Brady:
For anyone who grew up in South Dublin, or who have kids or even grandkids in the area, there’s one face (and sound) you’ll always be happy to come across.
For the last 49 years Mr.Ripple has been playing the same old tune around Dublin, to the excitement of kids and for the memories of generations.
Mr Ripple is a short documentary following ice-cream man John Taylor during one of his daily rounds. Originally working the mines in Wales, he moved to Dublin around 50 years ago and started selling ice-cream.
At 75 he’s still driving each day with his route taking him to around areas in South Dublin, making him (presumably) Ireland’s oldest ice cream man.
Mmf.
Previously: Cone in 60 Seconds
Look at the paltry amount of Phineas Q Butterfat’s finest in that cone -that truck would be tipped over in my locale if this were the serving size on offer.
I’m sorry, but that is a very scary photo.l
I hate screwballs.
Haa…”my Dad will pay you tomorrow”. Nice
its a fairly miserable looking 99
Jesus, we now have ice cream Nazis’.
…are you anything to the Friscondos who fought in the ice cream wars in Glasgow during the ’70s?
Gas isn’t it? Negativity is the priority.
Yup. Negativity and fights.
Though it has gotten better since Moyest left.
Never saw him in my part of south Dublin, Rialto.
Now now Eamonn, you know that ‘South’ means east of the Dodder.
He’s been knocking around Rathfarnham way years. He’s a bit of a boll@x too, said some terrible things to me as a kid. His ice cream is very frothy, kinda like full of air. He made a fortune though, .
“He made a fortune..” Haa
He certainly did, lives beside Taylors tree rock. I’d say when the change over happened from Punts to Euro he was a busy man.
Ah the begrudging Irish. Did you see his gaf? It’s quite ordinary. Surely you wouldn’t begrudge a hard working man a living. Fair play to him. Maybe he didn’t like you because you were a little boll@x and not him? Ha
It may look ordinary, but it has huge land around it in a very in demand area for land. Nah he was a boll@x, I was very quiet as a kid he slagged me over a facial disfigurement I had for no reason. He was a strange man, he was very petty you can even see it in that film. He mainly stuck to working class areas. His ice cream was disgusting.
Cone but not forgotten. Read the small print in your cone-tract. And other Partridgisms.
Rudy Giuliani leads a double life as a Dublin Ice cream salesman?
thats some scoop for taller stories productions.
OMG, has Albert Reynolds been reincarnated.
That’s it!