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LET’S ALL TRY and cast our minds back to 2007…
A distant memory for most of us…
No doubt we’d find ourselves bewildered by the dress sense and popular culture of the period, if we happened, somehow, to be whisked back in a time machine.
Ben Affleck’s ‘Gone Baby Gone’ was packing them in in the movie-houses for instance, and in the charts (?) someone called ‘Beyoncé’ had all the kids talking (talking … remember talking?).
Anyway.
Enough of this chicanery…
Continuing our intermittent (and surprisingly popular) series of political nostalgia posts, we really just dragged you all the way down here to show you this…
Lucinda Creighton, then an up-and-coming Fine Gael councillor, presumably had hundreds of these moody-looking beermats printed up as she launched her bid for a Dáil seat in ’07.
She was, as we all know, pretty successful in that year’s General Election, and still occupies her Dublin South-East seat, following a further victory in 2011 (there’s been a lot of water under the bridge between herself and the party since then, obviously, but let’s not get into that — this isn’t history class).
The back of the beermat, by the way, is a little bit genius…
[Pics via the excellent Irish Election Literature]
If, again, you could take a second to plunge back into the murky depths of time, you might recall that the slogan was a play on a line from a well known sensible drinking ad (remember sensible drinking?).
Alright, we’re done.
Back on Wednesday with more of this sort of thing…
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Brilliant idea.
True, but the retailers ain’t gonna like it!
Can I bring my heart? Someone broke it…
Sounds a bit like the Mens’ Sheds idea, the more of these things that spring up the better IMO. People have got used to the throwaway society but there is great satisfaction to be had from repairing things.
Can I bring irish water ?
Idiot
Why would you want to fix that ?
Not exactly the type of cafe from Amsterdam I was hoping for but its a start.
This is a great idea and frankly one that should be adopted countrywide. I would love to learn new skills that would give many old items a new lease of life . We really need to move away from the throwaway culture. When I could afford it I always tried to buy better quality items that are repairable . I am a big fan of upcycling too and would love more techniques on that. The attitude of maintains and repairing and caring for what you own us the ONLY good thing to come out of this recession I think .
Me too, Catherine. I’d rather buy good quality secondhand than bad quality new.
Excellent idea, Fixing stuff when it broke or mending the odd rip in your clothes ( patching your jeans before it became fashionable not to) was taken for granted in my youth. Even taking things apart before they broke, ya know just in case it did break in the future.
A little excess money tends to negate the necessity which of course is the mother of all invention.
A great idea for those people that just need a kickstart to get going,I learned to do repairs many moons ago when I bought my first car,a late sixties Morris minor that had pop up indicators that got stuck, I not only do a lot of my own repairs but also like a lot of DIY addicts learned to recycle and invent new solutions to problems, thereby saving large amounts of dosh in the process, it’s neither compulsory nor is it desirable to pay through the nose for everything, there are alternatives but you do need a good tool kit.
It’s a good idea, would you have to sign a disclaimer that if you got a shock from a broken lamp etc that you wouldn’t sue otherwise I could see the council shutting it down.
I’m not sure they would advocate a lay person doing electrical repairs . You need to be RECI certified for to attempt those.
Well, how did it go?
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