Bernard O'Shea

Dublin, do you hear us, Dublin?

I was telling my kids recently about phone boxes.

And they were going, what?

Because they saw one in a little village, we were driving to Centre Parcs, where we basically, where I'll probably end up, you know, my ashes being sprayed over Centre Parcs.

But we were driving and they said, what's that?

I said, it's a phone box.

And I said, well, what do you do?

I said, well, you'd go in and you'd have coins and you'd put it in and you'd dial the number and you'd ring somebody.

And they were, but how do you know if someone is there?

I said, no, you'd kind of have it somewhat arranged.

And do you know what?

They did not believe me.

And then the state went bankrupt because of your phone calls.

Because of that, yeah.

The Taoiseach's office getting this bill for $850,000.

Oh, no, no, I'm way past the A and B buttons.

Yeah, yeah, no, it was just... Now, I do remember this.

The phone box in Durrell, in Leash, where I grew up,

something odd happened to it and basically people figured out they could ring the states for free right there was queues right there was queues there was cars coming from the isle of man to this thing right but like you know like so much yeah yeah yeah but actually now there's four but there's a great if you ever get the time which you might i don't know

There's a great Pat Kenny RTE report from the 80s and it's about the fact that there's no phones in Ireland.