Where I used to live there was a guy called Anthony “Batman”. A Guy who was addicted to jumping out the window. He suffered PTSD from when he was younger cause when he was 7 he had to jump out a window to be saved from a housefire and it somehow manifested to him being addicted to jumping out the window in adulthood. He used to jump out the window multiple times a day, breaking the glass too. His wife, who stayed with him because she was in love with him, had to work 2 full time jobs to cover the cost of constantly replacing the window glass. And his children couldnt have friends over from the embarassment. One day he met his end when he jumped out a window and was impaled on a garden gnome.
We used to have Dancing Dave.. not sure who we “have” anymore tbh. The egg man maybe? Or that fella who walks around wearing those goggles?
Newbridge had Nightrider.
Walking home from the nightclubs at 4 am along the main street from the bridge down past the Keadeen, you might see Nightrider speeding along the empty road on his racing bike, fully kitted out, head down, arse up, giving it everything.
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Mine is the guy that has been banned from every restaurant/bar in town. He likes to show up at opening to start drinking and stays till it starts to get too crowded. He gets banned for having a mouth with the bartender, wait staff, and other guests. Acts like he owns the place since he’s ‘always here’. Has ‘his seat’ that he gets upset about if someone is in it ever. And complains to high heaven if they’re even a minute late unlocking the doors. No excuses are good enough for him. You know, cause it’s ‘his’ bar.
Duck Arse. Used to drive a Honda, recently upgraded to a Vespa. He’s barred from most establishments
Also Shamanta. You can spot him running up the middle of the road dragging blocks, or doing press ups against the benches, or doing laps of the roundabout in the middle of the town.
Ah Edenderry.
We had punk rock granny. A lady in her 60s who was a time warp from the mid 1970s punk scene with the piercings, tattoos, spiky coloured hair and the boots, leathers, fishnets and chains to go along with it all. Scared the life out of me as a child but I grew to appreciate her style and don’t give a F attitude.
The local character as they would say.
Waterford – How do!
Cork has high kick kev. The man’s a dancing machine.
Ballina has Regano. He looks like an Irish Brazilian who claims he holds a Guinness World Record for the most football skills completed in a minute. You will often see him walking with a limp down to the park holding a sign that says “Regano”.
My Town. An auld drunk who used to just yell ‘MY TOWN!’
Waterford City had Taudy Morrisey, HowDo, My Town, Shammy, 3 Dog Keaton, and Martin Hunt
In my village we have the man who semi-successfully raided the Garda station twice, no repercussions and he’s back in the village drinking and doing his usual.
Lived in Tullamore for a couple years and there is/was? an auld lad known as Spoons
There’s a few in Killarney to be honest but my personal favourite has got to be the sham, has an accent so thick he arguably isn’t even speaking English. Old scrawny man but when he dies the town will go into a 10 day mourning period I’d say
We did have Tootsie Barry in Kilkenny.
Dundalk has bucky, Jesus Jones, Mary maguire, Buddha mcdowell, the cowboy, maxi from the FAI standoff
Mad davey maguire until he passed a few years back
Limerick hasn’t been the same since Annie Fitz and Willie 3 Toes died. Your man singing and busking badly with the tambourine is a very poor replacement.
Pepi.
Stands outside Supervalu and sniffs out of a can of Zippo lighter fluid inside his coat.
He’s a gas man.
Nobody knows her name, but out here we have “The hooker without a nose”.
……Not a pretty sight.
Spoons, a character known for playing the spoons on a bench in the middle of town on occasion.
Galway had/has Wee Seamus, Robocop and Nora Warts to name a few.
Ian Bailey hanging around is close enough
Ashtown in Dublin had a guy that was obsessed with Elvis. Died his hair jet black & never wore a shirt no matter what the weather. He used to get on the 122 bus & perform Elvis songs on the top deck complete with dance moves. Harmless & hilarious. Died a few years back I believe.
Dancin Dave/Eamon, Sexy Jesus, Patience, Big Issue Fella, Rudolph, Skippy, Apocalypse Binbags, Master Blaster, Rasta Hat Lady, the guy with the blue light on a pole on the back of his moped pretending he’s a parking warden or something
Guess the city
There’s heaps in Belfast, but my favourite was a fella in Derry who goes to every single funeral going.
They call him ‘Barry Mahogany Shoulders’
My town has the infamous druggies, Crunchy and Smell and also the lad that drives the mobility scooter with a speaker strapped to the back blaring tunes at half 7 in the morning.
Westport has Dave the busker. Most god awful singer and guitar player the world has ever known. Bad tempered, territorial and out of time.
Usually appears near summer. Is rumoured to have beef with Westports premier Elvis impersonator/former taximan “Sound Sound”.
Maggie ***** was our Wexford town character. I’m not going to name her and shame her bc she’s honestly a lovely woman. Used to spend her days begging on the street even though she had a home and was on the dole. You could hear her singing from well down the street “nobodies child”. Would sit outside the sweet shop and ask children for their sweets as they left.
Nobody would give her any money and she used to seem frustrated at that.
We also have the preacher. Used to have a portable speaker and would ramble about absolute shite for hours. Has been arrested for multiple breachings of the peace. He still zooms around on this electric scooter and sits sadly outside the bank of Ireland.
This is his YouTube channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCRrIUR3ZgPtqS6IRbUgQ9Jg
Mad Mary, Preacher Steve and Maggie Hurley. Theres also the fella who plays the fiddle really badly on mainstreet wearing wellies and a flat cap.
Champ is the heart and soul of ennis
Greystones has, or at least had, a homeless lad called Chong. He the last of the eco warriors protesting the construction of the N11 and apparently still lives in the woods up there. He is the absolute spit of Tommy Chong, even talked like him.
We also had an old lady that lived in this massive dilapidated house in the burnaby. Apparently she joined a cult and gave all her money to the leader so her family cut her off and gave her just enough to survive. You’d see her sometimes starting out from the upstairs windows sometimes, very creepy. She died eventually and the house burned down.
We also have the Flynn twins but we don’t like to talk about them…
Belfast. We have Sammy Wilson and the DUP. 😡
goggle man in cork, he wears big goggles and has a very unshaven appearance. if you see him, you know him
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Where I used to live there was a guy called Anthony “Batman”. A Guy who was addicted to jumping out the window. He suffered PTSD from when he was younger cause when he was 7 he had to jump out a window to be saved from a housefire and it somehow manifested to him being addicted to jumping out the window in adulthood. He used to jump out the window multiple times a day, breaking the glass too. His wife, who stayed with him because she was in love with him, had to work 2 full time jobs to cover the cost of constantly replacing the window glass. And his children couldnt have friends over from the embarassment. One day he met his end when he jumped out a window and was impaled on a garden gnome.
Johnny Beep Beep
https://youtu.be/ABvA_LOJH5Y ~ Mullingar
There’s used to be quite a few in tralee. A relatively less well known guy had the best nickname I’ve come across…
“Joe the Liar”
[Fermanagh](https://youtu.be/WnNQ_n6vhBs)
We used to have Dancing Dave.. not sure who we “have” anymore tbh. The egg man maybe? Or that fella who walks around wearing those goggles?
Newbridge had Nightrider.
Walking home from the nightclubs at 4 am along the main street from the bridge down past the Keadeen, you might see Nightrider speeding along the empty road on his racing bike, fully kitted out, head down, arse up, giving it everything.
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Mine is the guy that has been banned from every restaurant/bar in town. He likes to show up at opening to start drinking and stays till it starts to get too crowded. He gets banned for having a mouth with the bartender, wait staff, and other guests. Acts like he owns the place since he’s ‘always here’. Has ‘his seat’ that he gets upset about if someone is in it ever. And complains to high heaven if they’re even a minute late unlocking the doors. No excuses are good enough for him. You know, cause it’s ‘his’ bar.
Duck Arse. Used to drive a Honda, recently upgraded to a Vespa. He’s barred from most establishments
Also Shamanta. You can spot him running up the middle of the road dragging blocks, or doing press ups against the benches, or doing laps of the roundabout in the middle of the town.
Ah Edenderry.
We had punk rock granny. A lady in her 60s who was a time warp from the mid 1970s punk scene with the piercings, tattoos, spiky coloured hair and the boots, leathers, fishnets and chains to go along with it all. Scared the life out of me as a child but I grew to appreciate her style and don’t give a F attitude.
The local character as they would say.
Waterford – How do!
Cork has high kick kev. The man’s a dancing machine.
Ballina has Regano. He looks like an Irish Brazilian who claims he holds a Guinness World Record for the most football skills completed in a minute. You will often see him walking with a limp down to the park holding a sign that says “Regano”.
My Town. An auld drunk who used to just yell ‘MY TOWN!’
Waterford City had Taudy Morrisey, HowDo, My Town, Shammy, 3 Dog Keaton, and Martin Hunt
In my village we have the man who semi-successfully raided the Garda station twice, no repercussions and he’s back in the village drinking and doing his usual.
Lived in Tullamore for a couple years and there is/was? an auld lad known as Spoons
There’s a few in Killarney to be honest but my personal favourite has got to be the sham, has an accent so thick he arguably isn’t even speaking English. Old scrawny man but when he dies the town will go into a 10 day mourning period I’d say
We did have Tootsie Barry in Kilkenny.
Dundalk has bucky, Jesus Jones, Mary maguire, Buddha mcdowell, the cowboy, maxi from the FAI standoff
Mad davey maguire until he passed a few years back
Limerick hasn’t been the same since Annie Fitz and Willie 3 Toes died. Your man singing and busking badly with the tambourine is a very poor replacement.
Pepi.
Stands outside Supervalu and sniffs out of a can of Zippo lighter fluid inside his coat.
He’s a gas man.
Nobody knows her name, but out here we have “The hooker without a nose”.
……Not a pretty sight.
Spoons, a character known for playing the spoons on a bench in the middle of town on occasion.
Kilkenny had Tootsie Barry and still have Elvis
[Tootsie Barry singing ](https://youtu.be/LzulYoyMiHE)
[Elvis Interview ](https://youtu.be/mlfp9xvHDSc)
Galway had/has Wee Seamus, Robocop and Nora Warts to name a few.
Ian Bailey hanging around is close enough
Ashtown in Dublin had a guy that was obsessed with Elvis. Died his hair jet black & never wore a shirt no matter what the weather. He used to get on the 122 bus & perform Elvis songs on the top deck complete with dance moves. Harmless & hilarious. Died a few years back I believe.
Dancin Dave/Eamon, Sexy Jesus, Patience, Big Issue Fella, Rudolph, Skippy, Apocalypse Binbags, Master Blaster, Rasta Hat Lady, the guy with the blue light on a pole on the back of his moped pretending he’s a parking warden or something
Guess the city
There’s heaps in Belfast, but my favourite was a fella in Derry who goes to every single funeral going.
They call him ‘Barry Mahogany Shoulders’
My town has the infamous druggies, Crunchy and Smell and also the lad that drives the mobility scooter with a speaker strapped to the back blaring tunes at half 7 in the morning.
Westport has Dave the busker. Most god awful singer and guitar player the world has ever known. Bad tempered, territorial and out of time.
Usually appears near summer. Is rumoured to have beef with Westports premier Elvis impersonator/former taximan “Sound Sound”.
https://youtu.be/gkp267-OyUI
Maggie ***** was our Wexford town character. I’m not going to name her and shame her bc she’s honestly a lovely woman. Used to spend her days begging on the street even though she had a home and was on the dole. You could hear her singing from well down the street “nobodies child”. Would sit outside the sweet shop and ask children for their sweets as they left.
Nobody would give her any money and she used to seem frustrated at that.
We also have the preacher. Used to have a portable speaker and would ramble about absolute shite for hours. Has been arrested for multiple breachings of the peace. He still zooms around on this electric scooter and sits sadly outside the bank of Ireland.
This is his YouTube channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCRrIUR3ZgPtqS6IRbUgQ9Jg
Mad Mary, Preacher Steve and Maggie Hurley. Theres also the fella who plays the fiddle really badly on mainstreet wearing wellies and a flat cap.
Champ is the heart and soul of ennis
Greystones has, or at least had, a homeless lad called Chong. He the last of the eco warriors protesting the construction of the N11 and apparently still lives in the woods up there. He is the absolute spit of Tommy Chong, even talked like him.
We also had an old lady that lived in this massive dilapidated house in the burnaby. Apparently she joined a cult and gave all her money to the leader so her family cut her off and gave her just enough to survive. You’d see her sometimes starting out from the upstairs windows sometimes, very creepy. She died eventually and the house burned down.
We also have the Flynn twins but we don’t like to talk about them…
Belfast. We have Sammy Wilson and the DUP. 😡
goggle man in cork, he wears big goggles and has a very unshaven appearance. if you see him, you know him
Drogheda… Paddy McCabe