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Dervala’s Ashes
This time 15 years ago I was standing outside Friar Tuck’s in Limerick, wrestling my first underage pints into submission with a curry chip1 and watching the fights on the steps of the Redemptorist Fathers church opposite.

Life in Limerick in the 80s was nasty, brutish, and far too long. Please please please can I have a Green Card?

[1] An order of soggy fries topped with a huge dollop of curry sauce. Fondly known as ‘babyshit on chips’.

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One comment to “Dervala’s Ashes”

  1. Comment by John:
    Monday, November 3rd 2003 at 6:38 pm

    just came across this…Brilliant! I have a few happy memories of Friar Tucks myself (well, relatively happy) – I was in college in NIHE Limerick during the late Eighties (before it became ULA (University of Limerick, Actually)