Let’s go back for a second.
Back to a time where a field full of cut grass was a fort-building opportunity, Mr Freezes were a daily delicacy and Irish summers seemed to be much warmer.
It could be nostalgia… actually feck it, it is nostalgia.
Nonetheless, there are many things we miss from our Irish childhood summers.
Here are nine such things…
Using someone’s house gates as a goal in a game of heads and volleys
Eventually this ended up with a broken window and a day or two spent in your mother’s bad books… but we’ll choose not to dwell on that part.
Mr. Freezes
10p used to get you one of these, now that’s a beautiful madness.
Being constantly tormented by midges
They were everywhere. EVERYWHERE! But you didn’t mind, because when those little f*ckers were around you knew summer had arrived.
The excitement on the last day of school
It usually involved a big ‘ol sweets party, where you consumed enough sugar to kill a much larger mammal.
Irish college (The Gaeltacht)
And the innocent shift after the Céilí Mór. God be with the days.
Water fights
It’s crazy when you think about it – a bunch of kids drenching each other the first day the temperature gets above 12c.
Forts from cut-grass/unsafe tree houses
Remember almost falling to your death trying to build huts in trees? We certainly do.
Holidays down the country
Where it was always roasting… or at least, that’s how you remember it.
Travelling up to Croker for the big game
Inevitably giving some chancer outside the ground €7 for a piece of string with your team’s colour on it.
Summer is all about celebrating the best bits in life and so is Club. That’s why they’ve reintroduced the delicious Club Passion for a limited time.
Not only that, over on their Facebook they’re giving fans the opportunity to win loads of cool prizes such as festival tickets by using #SummerOfPassion.
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