Who's old enough to remember pulling 1 of these bad boys out on a cinema date & having change to get you both food & drinks. When voting FF/FG was a good thing.

by Pink1Floyd4d

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  3. I miss the coins. We were the only country on the planet that had animals on our coins and a musical instrument on the back. I miss them so much.

  4. Ah yes. Before we became subservient to Brussles and a dumping ground for asylum seakers

  6. Good old days. £20 would go so far. At 17, I remember I got paid £1.90 an hour in my job which in today’s money is still utter shite.
    Yeah, great times

  9. Used to get a feed of pints, burger & chips and a taxi home for that on a night out…

  10. I miss the Irish on the notes. They were very cool and uniquely Irish.

  11. Back in the day, you’d get a whole weekend of pints, smokes, chips and taxis home for one of these. And two of them was enough for a deposit on a house.

  14. These days ended when you were taking a Douglas Hyde out of the ATM for a night out but even at that you got far more for the Caoga Punt vs now. Early 2000’s before the Euro came in I was doing bar work and remember it vividly 50 becoming the new default note to take out at an ATM.

  16. Can’t lie makes me think of an eighth of hash.

  18. In 1994 when I finished college a pint was 2.25 you could get 7 pints and a bag of chips

  19. look at his cheeky wee smile he’s probably off to emancipate some catholics

  20. If you had a chance to save 15 of them you would get a grand motor car in the late 1990s for £300

  23. Flashback to pulling a few crisp Daniels out of a communion envelope. Never felt so flush, before or since.

  27. You could buy single cigarettes from the local shop when you were 10 for a few pence.

  28. Many a night I lost a tooth and never once woke up to a Daniel O Connell under my pillow

  29. Change for food and drinks at the cinema? You’d have the down payment on a house and change for a sun holiday.

  30. Before we paid €1billion a year to subsidise hotel owners. Glorious.

  31. 1998… Pints were 2.25. 10 John player blue were 1.15. 20 quid was a night out. Today, 20 euro is 2 drinks

  32. I’m a bit too young to remember the pound 😭 and I’m 26! Idk when it came in but I’ve always remembered the euro

  35. I actually hope we hold a referendum to bring these back I was too young when the vote was held for the Euro and now I’m stuck with imaginary bridge’s in my pocket.

  36. It’s weird how it has a website address printed in the corner. Didn’t think they had the internet in those days.

  37. Yea, grand and all, but thank fuck we don’t still have em. Changing money for Francs, Lira, or Marks was a fucking ball ache. Pretty and all, but happier to see em on a wall than in my pocket.

  39. 2001, when prices went from 0.78p to a euro + a euro

  41. That’d buy you a house, and was enough to have someone shot or impregnated

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