25 signs that you attended St Pat's in the 1990s
Secondary schools have changed a lot over the last 20 years, for the better in most cases. Did you attend St Pat’s, Cavan back in the 1990s? Some of this may ring a bell.
1: If you were wore white socks with your uniform, you were a social pariah.
2: If someone spotted a pocket on your shirt, they were officially authorised to rip it off.
3: Once May 1st arrived, if you were a first-year, you tightened the belt on your trousers for the arrival of ‘jocking season’. Be afraid.
4: You played handball against every available wall including the small space at the side of the assembly hall, which was on a slope and meant the ball would run down to the main road at leats twice each lunchtime.
5: You legged it to ‘the ref’ every lunchtime to beat the queue on the green-tiled corridor.
6: You took your life in your own hands every time you played soccer on the sand courts.
7: If you were brave enough, you threw fruit over the wall into the ‘Mullahoran alley’ – and legged it.
8: You talked about Manchester United at length in Mr O’Connor’s science class.
9: You never, ever referred to a teacher by their real name.
10: You saw at least one fight with someone from ‘the Tech’.
11: You brought a tin of Lynx Africa with you in your bag so the Loreto girls on the bus didn’t think you were a muck savage.
12: But you more than likely WERE a muck savage.
13: You remember that period when students were allowed to blast music out of an upstairs window at lunch time.
14: You went down to the ‘basements’ at lunch time to queue for 45 minutes for one five-minute game of doubles on the snooker table.
15: The highlight of the year was when the teachers entered a team in the outdoor soccer leagues and you got a chance to holler some home truths.
16: But the ‘outdoor soccer leagues’ were really a knock-out cup, not a league.
17: You scrawled highly libellous statements about your classmates on your desk/their copies.
18: Your one class a week in the computer lab consisted of emailing the lads sitting around you to question their sexuality.
19: Have no friends? No problem. Scrape up 50p to buy a can of coke in the machine. Hey presto, you are now the most popular man in school.
20: You rocked that recorder in Mr Tackney’s class like you were Cavan’s answer to John Coltrane.
21: You sat at least one major exam in a handball alley.
22: You tried to come up with the rudest name you could for your fantasy football team, which was ALWAYS changed by the organisers.
23: You prayed for the day that a teacher wouldn’t show up and you’d get to doss for 40 minutes in the study hall.
24: You more than likely wore a jumper originally belonging to your brother/cousin/neighbour.
25: You kept a safe distance from boarders, especially when Meath footballers were winning All-Irelands.
26: You’ve never had as much craic since.